| Disaster - Engine seized. |
Subject: Disaster - Engine seized. by Durango_Boy on 2012/6/5 14:44:33 My 1977 Corvette has a 405 and dual side draft carbs. I'm not a carb guy so I had someone else suggest components and build them to what he thought suited the 405. End result was too much carb for the engine. Three weeks ago today I dropped the Vette off to a local shop who's owner has extensive experience with these carbs and he was going to tune them down to what the engine would be happier with. Short a tech, and too far behind to start on my back burner project, he basically was starting it and moving it in and out of the shop every day until he could get to it. This morning was no different. He started it and moved it outside and let it sit running to warm up while he moved a few other cars and trucks around in the shop. When he went back to turn off the Vette engine it was already not running. Curious, he attempted to restart it and got nothing. He tried to turn it by hand. Nothing. An oil cooler line up front popped off when he moved it this morning and it promptly emptied it's oil onto the ground under the nose of the car and ran until it seized. At this point I am going to have to call a flatbed tow to pick it up and take it back home to my garage so I can pull the engine / transmission and start tearing it apart to investigate the extent of the damage. BTW - The oil cooler lines up front had two hose clamps each for redundancy. Either both hose clamps let go or a line got caught on something on the ground as he moved it. Not sure which and it's all speculation. Essentially, since he wasn't working on it, and just moving it in and out every day, he's washed his hands of responsibility and I'll be covering all the costs associated with figuring out what happened. Yeah, heck of a birthday present...bringing my Vette home from a shop with a seized engine. |
