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Ever Seen This? Broken Pre Chamber... - Captain America - 09-23-2013
In light of the Prechamber Mod "Flame" Front thread, http://www.superturbodiesel.com/std/thread-2169.html , I finally gathered the tools and pulled all the pre-chambers out of the 1985 head that I have. All came out easily and I had removed the glow plugs just prior. I was super stoked to see that the '85 had the "Up rated" prechambers with the larger "k" and "L" holes
I got sad though when I pulled #5 chamber and saw it was broken...
Has anyone ever seen this?
Guess I'm back to pulling my current chambers and reaming them, But looks like a lot more reaming is to be done to the up rated chambers anyway!
RE: Ever Seen This? Broken Pre Chamber... - DiseaselWeasel - 09-23-2013
Yes. Common issue... Makes a lovely noise
In worse cases the "swirl pin" (don't know the proper english term) cracks open the pre-chamber and creates serious damage to the engine...
RE: Ever Seen This? Broken Pre Chamber... - winmutt - 09-25-2013
Better than this (thanks to autolite):
![[Image: prechamber1.jpg]](http://superturbodiesel.com/images/benz/w123%20maintentance/om617%20broken%20prechamber/prechamber1.jpg)
![[Image: prechamber2.jpg]](http://superturbodiesel.com/images/benz/w123%20maintentance/om617%20broken%20prechamber/prechamber2.jpg)
![[Image: prechamber3.jpg]](http://superturbodiesel.com/images/benz/w123%20maintentance/om617%20broken%20prechamber/prechamber3.jpg)
RE: Ever Seen This? Broken Pre Chamber... - Captain America - 09-25-2013
Dunno if you recalled the glow plugs I pulled from my first motor winmutt, but the ends were all gone and I was scared of things looking like those
RE: Ever Seen This? Broken Pre Chamber... - carlitosgy6 - 12-20-2013
(09-25-2013, 08:33 AM)winmutt Better than this (thanks to autolite):
please explain how glow plugs caused that,thanks in advance
RE: Ever Seen This? Broken Pre Chamber... - Austincarnut - 12-21-2013
I've seen it, it killed 2 cyl on an engine I had. The turbo was junk also, engine still ran fine...
(09-23-2013, 12:54 AM)Captain America In light of the Prechamber Mod "Flame" Front thread, http://www.superturbodiesel.com/std/thread-2169.html , I finally gathered the tools and pulled all the pre-chambers out of the 1985 head that I have. All came out easily and I had removed the glow plugs just prior. I was super stoked to see that the '85 had the "Up rated" prechambers with the larger "k" and "L" holes
I got sad though when I pulled #5 chamber and saw it was broken...
Has anyone ever seen this?
Guess I'm back to pulling my current chambers and reaming them, But looks like a lot more reaming is to be done to the up rated chambers anyway!
RE: Ever Seen This? Broken Pre Chamber... - winmutt - 12-21-2013
(12-20-2013, 07:32 PM)carlitosgy6(09-25-2013, 08:33 AM)winmutt Better than this (thanks to autolite):
please explain how glow plugs caused that,thanks in advance
Tips break off and the injection repeeatedly slams the tip against the end of the chmaber ateast 10x per second
RE: Ever Seen This? Broken Pre Chamber... - carlitosgy6 - 12-24-2013
Thanks for your info