ouch! think i need a new crank!
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well i managed about 2weeks out of my old turbo engine before it died, somehow the flywheel bolt got loose and the flywheel span on the crank, its not a pretty sight but theres no one to blame but myself, i tightened the bugger up! ah well time for a better engine i think, it was smoking a bit anyway.

some pics for your amusement:





the flywheels going to make a nice clock for my garage wall.
took some getting off too!
steve.

doh! why did i start messing with it!

ouch!

Team Racing

its gonna be a bigger ouch in the wallet lol

oooooooh! thats proper F&^%&ED!!!

yeah gonna hurt my pockets a bit this time, but if theres any excuse to upgrade this has to be it

on the plus side at least i can paint my engine bay now.
steve.

doh! why did i start messing with it!

can't you have the flywheel weld repaired and taper reground if it's steel

Metro turbo weekend driver,Mini turbo in the making again!

possibly? i dunno realy, the crank is certainly past it, but when i get the rest of the machine work done i'll have to enquire about it, got a feeling a new flywheel wont be much more tho.

steve.

doh! why did i start messing with it!

re grinding the taper is bad news... one thou off the taper moves the flywheel about 20 thou closer to the engine!

you'd need a good few thou off that crank tail to sort it out!

AlexF

Bit of JB weld and a lick of silver hamerite and it's ready for ebay!

lol! well at least its only a standard crank this time, my old 1380 chewed up a pretty nice one a few months back but that might be salvagable with a bit of a grind on the mains. we'll have to see i suppose
steve.

doh! why did i start messing with it!

Whoops, sorry to see that mate!!!! Hope u get it sorted soon.

-MINI CLUBMAN 1380 TURBO-

use some locktite on the bolt next time, and it will be fine

16V project underway

yeah dont worry ive learnt my lesson this time! ive got an old vauxhall combi van to run about in from this weekend now, so ive got more time to mess with it. no more excuses its gonna be right this time, its what i should have done in the first place realy :/
steve.

doh! why did i start messing with it!

i have a spare i think i will have a look later

cheers wolfie but ive got a couple of standard cranks in my shed somewhere mate and another worked one in a 1380 that needs a regrind on its mains. i'll prolly just exchange one of the standards against a nice one from morspeed or med eventualy.

now i know theres a big divide over this but im a great lover of green engines. but i'll be damned if i can find some propper morris green engine paint anywhere? where do you all get it from? or what paint do you use?
steve.

doh! why did i start messing with it!

I think Minisport {groan !} sell it, or hammerite do a green which is a very close match.

Phil.

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ah right cheers mate will give them a try, might try my local paint supliers too on the off chance they do high temp paint to order... actualy anyone know what sort of temprature the external surfaces of the block and head get too? just as a referance
steve.
i know this is the wrong section to ask in but someone might see it

doh! why did i start messing with it!

I get it from Moss... EP3A is the code you want.

top man, will give em a bell when i need it, my mates dad has offered to chemical dip a bare 1275 block i have so will hopefully get a nice finish to it this time.
cheers
steve.

doh! why did i start messing with it!

had the exact, EXACT, same thing happen to my crank and an ultralite, winced when i saw it. crank looked like a dogs chewed on a cricket wicket.

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

lol yeah its certainly not pretty is it. it'll go live with the other broken bits on the shelf of doom. along with the bent tie bars, smashed gears, and other bits i prolly forgot to tighten up too.

steve.

doh! why did i start messing with it!

Been there!

Don't they rev so freely with no flywheel attached!

actualy the funny thing is it made it 4 miles back to my workshop like it!? no slipping or anything, was just having major problems getting gears. so i did the old dump it in 3rd and hope i didnt have to stop trick. the flywheel never came properly loose just enough to spin itself 45deg on the crank. so god knows how it managed all that damage.
steve.

doh! why did i start messing with it!

I was having loads of problems with my clutch, but then it was ok for about a week, and all of a sudden it made a horrid noise, then silence but I couldnt get any gears at all.
A 10 tonne hydraullic puller couldnt get it off, even when cherry red. Was as if it was fused.

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

It is quite possible that it WAS fused, this is what happens due to the friction between crank nose taper and flywheel causes the crank to weld to the flywheel........

What I would guess has happened in the picture at the top is that the crank has micro-welded itself to the fly, and then broken loose, a number of times, thus causing the damage seen on the crank nose in the pictures. It may have only been 45 degress out when you took the cover out, but how many times had it been all the way round before it landed at that 45 degrees?!!!