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But the rods, shown in photos provided by RIDOT, would draw heavy public scrutiny initially. Two were broken. And both exhibited another trait: Neither was uniform in diameter. Each was narrower ...

The most catastrophic – and visual – is a broken connecting rod punching a hole in the block or crankcase. A connecting rod is the part that connects a piston, which is moving up and down very ...

Connecting rod length ... or broken rings and ring lands, excessive oil passage into the combustion chamber, fouled spark plugs and a sour engine. High-temperature "creep" in piston rings ...

RAY: I have to guess that a connecting rod broke. The connecting rods connect the pistons to the crankshaft and transfer the power that’s produced by the detonations in the cylinders.