{"id":534,"date":"2017-06-14T06:19:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T10:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2017-06-14T06:19:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T10:19:24","slug":"well-disaster-has-struck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/2017\/06\/14\/well-disaster-has-struck\/","title":{"rendered":"Well disaster has struck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drove the car Saturday nite to pick up a pizza. Ran great. beat it as usual. Parked it overnight. Got up the next morning and fired it up ran a little rough for a couple of seconds then it ran a lot rough. \u00a0Towed it to the shop, pulled the plugs and number 6 shot a geyser of coolant.<\/p>\n

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The #12 intake seat dropped out and the result was a wiped out chamber and piston. \u00a0Bits of the seat smashed the quench area enough to deform and crack the head.<\/p>\n

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I’m about 99 percent sure it was improper installation at this point. The seat bore is not cracked and I never overheated the motor.<\/p>\n

I was going to change it out at some point with a production head anyway but realistically with the current demand I have for heads it will be 6 months or more before I’ll be able to make it happen. I could repair it but since the motor is toast as well I’m better off concentrating on getting the heads into production.<\/p>\n

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Drove the car Saturday nite to pick up a pizza. Ran great. beat it as usual. Parked it overnight. Got up the next morning and fired it up ran a little rough for a couple of seconds then it ran a lot rough. \u00a0Towed it to the shop, pulled the plugs and number 6 shot … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6IdRp-8C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datsunworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}