Hi Keith,
Not actually had a rod break while running an engine, but seen a good deal of them in my working life, from large diesels down to small petrol engines. Common ones were the Jaguar 4.2 engines in the CVR(W) Fox armoured car, they would go big time rod knocking the side out of the block. I had to rebuild a big AEC diesel once, when this happened and the block was specialist repaired, it even broke through the cylinder wall, after repair you could not see the weld it was that good.
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Richard
1943 Bedford QLD lorry - 1941 BSA WM20 m/cycle - 1943 Daimler Scout Car Mk2
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