my au motor imploded

[Christiaan]

well it didnt quite implode, but i was driving along yesterday down wellington road near clayton uni, and the car started hesitating badly, so i dropped it back to neutral, and it stalled. i pulled over, switched to petrol to see whether or not there was somethng wrong with the gas, but there wasn't. it still didn't fire, just cranked and compression locked.

the engine is in an ed fairmont, and uses a dizzy instead of the coilpack.

so anyway, today we went back and tried to figure out what had happened. it wasn't the coil because there was spark, and it wasn't fuel cos there was plenty coming through. i took the dizzy out, and had a look down into the engine, and saw that it was pretty mangled.

we figured out that whatever the shaft is that the dizzy connects to inside the block, has been stripped or bent, or something, causing the starting problems.

anyone got any more info for me as to whats inside that bit, or a diagram or something?

thanks guys