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Here is some background about this car.

According to the PO it was sitting in a barn for 10 year. He put in a new gas tank and fuel pump, plus some of the fuel lines, it was all gunked up. He drove the car for a little wile and lost interest and patient to work on it. I rescued the car and took it home drove it a little and it was running not bad.

Since it was leaking like crazy I parked it and decided to take the engine out and seal it.

Here is something what could have over heated cyl # 3, the one with the bad piston. A mouse must have lived in there for a wile, and I don't know many miles the PO did like that.

Would this make sense ?

When I disassembled the engine one head stud of #1 was already snapped, just hanging loose.
The headstuds on #3 were OK.






Thanks for the info on the JE pistons !
Engelbert
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