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Wanted a snoblower and got another C-160

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Engine was in pieces when it arrived and needed a new piston but all that aside After a new rear seal and adding oil test drove it the other day. It was a lot of work but I'm just so glad there wasn't more damage as the fins were packed with mud(could this have caused the piston failure?) I'm thinking this was not a normal buildup. Has anyone seen this? No way it was cooling properly. 

 

And as a side note: I just wanted to send a shout out to Mabsoon for going out of his way and bringing both this and the snoblower down. ! couldn't have done it without you buddy.

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AMC RULES

These little guys just love finding a :wh: left sitting outside. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber

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There was some of those too, but on the other side of the motor. I'm talking mud like it had been used for off roading caked in behind flywheel and deep in fins under sheet metal side of motor. Let that be a lesson to take of the covers every now and then. If this was some kind of a normal buildup you wouldn't think it was really that bad without doing so. I'm still not sure if that would have caused a piston to fail as there seems to be nothing else noticeably wrong with it now.

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