Toms1989

You'll be very lucky to get it up and running if the shells have gone on the bottom end. I just went through this and tried putting in new shells on the seemingly OK crank journal and it just went with a bigger knock the second time.

You're right, it all depends on the severity, but if you can't get it back to perfect condition then it's pretty much a ticking time-bomb.
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Yeah I went down the 2nd hand engine route with mine. For what I picked my lump up for, it wouldn't have been far off the reworks cost of tidying the crank up.

Nick Graves

Yeah, even at 70, you've probably got 1/2 second to knock it into neutral & coast to a stop, if you see an oil warning light. And an XU6 is probably more forgiving than an F20c.

With the large, helpful STOP light preferred by ze French however, you probably lose 1/2 second thinking "WTF..?" instead of being reactive.

Delta_lima

I juist refurbished an F20c2. Engin light came on while hard cornering. inmedidadly shut it down.
Checked my piston rod bearings and they all were damaged/melted.
Your engine is wasted.

My fresh refurbished engine is for sale. You can even trade in your old one.

Mr-T

Hope your battle with the garage is going well. I dont know the legal stuff, but sure they should be liable as they did the work and you pay them to do a job right.

GreenmanS2000

Said to say the garage will deny all responsibility and probably claim it's the OPs fault or the car was interfered with.

I once had new brake lines fitte to my bike, road it 7 miles home, then a week later took too it for a mot ( 8 miles away). It failed due to leaking hoses - the unions hadn't been tightened properly.

The triumph dealer who fitted the hoses claimed the bike must have been interfered with out of my sight, despite it being locked in the back of my garage. At last I was easily fixed and only cost me a retest.

Good luck though.

Mr-T

Having had some experience recently with buying items and going wrong down the line, not sure where this comes in to effect with a "service". But under the sales of goods act, if the item fails within first 6 months, its on the dealer to prove their part is not at fault. After 6 months it becomes customer responsibility to prove it was the dealers fault.

Obviously a bit more difficult as the sump plug did not "fail", but as a "service given", there were oversights. I'd strongly suggest you contact citizens advice. They got back to me quite quickly with details of potential future actions.

Good Luck!