I agree too. Good luck Dave! Let's hope one piston gave up and didn't take anything else with it. The holed block I saw in the junkyard I got the good head from, the piston was mangled into a ball, rod bent and hole in the block. But you stopped you short of all that. We wait with 'bated breath. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:06, Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > me too.... > Smoke leading to tick leading to knock does not forebode well for a 196... > > good thing he shut it down, I've seen more than a few of those with a hole > in the side of the block :( > I always suspected a piston failure of some sort. > But never could decipher exactly what had failed on the two I did in. > Wasn't much left, but some chunks.... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.amc-list.com/pipermail/amc-list-amc-list.com/attachments/20090706/428ca0f1/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ AMC-list mailing list AMC-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://list.amc-list.com/listinfo.cgi/amc-list-amc-list.com