DeTomaso Mailing List: December 2000, Message #168

From:	"Charlie Mccall" <Charlie.Mccall@haworth.com>
Subject:	Re: Reason Pantera went Boom! Lesson here.
Date:	Tue, 5 Dec 2000 02:02:57 -0500

If it makes you feel better, you are not alone. I came back from France to pick up my car 2 years ago from Collector's Choice and drive it to the port to put it on a boat. Long story very short, after $12,000 worth of engine rebuild and other mechanical stuff replaced, 500 miles later I was sitting alongside the road with an engine that wouldn't start.

It was the shear pin as well. At least it wasn't serious, but I missed the boat, so to speak, and had to catch my plane. It took a couple months before I could get my car from where it had broken down to somewhere near a port. Maybe these things fail right away if they are going to fail? I had no slop in the timing chain, my engine had just had a complete rebuild. It just failed.

Charlie McCall
1972 DeTomaso Pantera #3847 (for sale)
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
"Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/gt5s_1985

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To make the story short The roll pin on my BRAND new Mallory Unilite sheared.
It had less than 200 miles on it and was only three months old. At least I
know why it quit. Has anyone ever just welded the gear to the shaft or would
that maybe soften up the metal in the gears ect too much? The timing chain
was sloppy and it did backfire which might have sheared the pin but I would
think it would have been stronger than that.

cheers john 6377

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<HTML>To make the story short The roll pin on my BRAND new Mallory Unilite sheared.
It had less than 200 miles on it and was only three months old. At least I
know why it quit. Has anyone ever just welded the gear to the shaft or would
that maybe soften up the metal in the gears ect too much? The timing chain
was sloppy and it did backfire which might have sheared the pin but I would
think it would have been stronger than that.
<BR>
<BR>cheers john 6377

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