Pics of Failed Mini Components

Disclaimer

This will hopefully help you identify if a component is broken or not. These are pics taken from the web when people have something blow up on their Mini, and managed to capture it on film/bits. This is by no means an exhaustive list, in both content and extent. There are possibilities of multiple, different failures of the same component, and some components may be beyond usage, but it can't be determined with the naked eye. The following should only be used as a ROUGH guide. Any damage or injury caused in any way due to information provided here is your own problem.

Picture	Comment
	Broken crank. Oops. Cheers to Tom Parker who sacrificed his engine to bring you this pic!
	Broken crank again. This one from Christiaan. A crankshaft from his friend's 1100 which suffered oil pressure loss, and seized the engine. If the picture is not clear enough, the big-end bearings on cyl.3 are now welded onto the crank journal.
	Broken crank again. This one from Christiaan. A crankshaft from his friend's 1100 which suffered oil pressure loss, and seized the engine. If the picture is not clear enough, the big-end bearings on cyl.3 are now welded onto the crank journal.
	Ripped subframe, from Christiaan. It was on a friend's Mini that he bought. This apparently happened while running over a large rock. Other damage included RH front being ripped, and the RH subframemount rubber was a gonner too.
	Cylinder head after a head gasket failure (one of many possible). You can see how gases were blowing past the gasket.
	A typical head gasket failure when it blows between cylinders 2 and 3. Usually this can be traced by rough (VERY) running, and lack of compression of the above mentioned cylinders.
	Worn diff pin, courtesy of Tom Parker. Apparently this happened during a race
	This is a bent front pivot pin. Courtesy of Piers Cos.
	Before&After of tiebars. These are heavy-duty tiebars, but the end is machined with a step, instead of a gradual slope, and they snapped. Courtesy of Tom Parker.
	It would really be funny if Bendix made these rods... Courtesy of Tom Parker.
	Broken differential planet gears. Its not all that hard to tell they are broken, is it? Courtesy of Tom Parker.
	Ever seen a valve drop out of the head, flip around and, jam into the piston? Well, here it is. Courtesy of Tom Parker.

This is a collection from VERY many various sources. Where possible, owner's permission was asked for duplication. Often it was just copied.