Having felt an explosion under the bonnet of my XY while accelerating hard, I looked back to see a heap of fluid trailing behind us. I could have sworn I saw a piston gudgeon pin bouncing down the road behind us.
Fearing the worst, I walked back to where the fluid started on the road while a friend popped the bonnet.
He leaned into the engine bay, and shouted out to me:
If I can see the crankshaft from here, is that a bad thing?
Ummm, yes it was
A broken conrod punched a sizeable hole in the block, and tore the sump in half. The fluid on the road was all the
oil and water that wsa in the motor at the time. My eye's weren't playing tricks on me either, as I found the gudgeon pin lying in the gutter.