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Originally Posted by Dieseldog
I probably ran it low a few times too many and then one day BLAM!!! I was on a full throttle run and the rod flys out through the case spraying oil and metal debris every where. I really wish I had a camera then. The damage was total.
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I threw the rod out of my 4 hp Tecumseh when I was overrevving it in my go-kart, but I had it running a couple days later. I got a rod and TIG welded a patch in the crankcase hole, and I had to smooth up a big nick on a piston skirt, but it's still together 35 years later. The kart now has an Elsinore 125 in it.