This will bolt right back in right..?

[fiv216]

Lol

Thought everyone might get a chuckle. Another good laugh for me from the $350 dsm.

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[crash89]

I got you one up!!!

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[FalleN4ng31]

Nah. New wrist pin and rings, you'll be fine.

This begs the question:
How did you manage that?

 

[Dhan]

FalleN beat me to it.

+1, how'd you pull that off?

 

[fiv216]

I went on CL aha, no clue how he pulled if off.. Bone stock 291,000 miles. I may be able to one up you. Thats the piston that fell out. The other three are still in there unknown condition. Aha

 

[boost97gst]

Also, its quite apparent the block is original. Nearly 300k of leaky valve cover oil caked on! Hot tank anyone? Im interested if the block is still good. Lets see some bores

 

[oren hughbanks]

Got one of those too!

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[crash89]

Pshh thats just a ringland.. Tis nothin! haha..

My story is pretty lame actually. Im not really sure what caused it. And this story is no bull shit. It was new years eve, Id just gotten off work (off at 11). Went home quick to change and headed to a buddies house that was about 15 minutes from my house, I lived 5 minutes from work. Should have made it there with plenty of time before the new year, granted I was only 19 but I was planning on a few adult beverages.. About half way to his house, just between towns I crest a hill.. Heard a rattle, engine braked and accelerated to see if I could hear it some more. louder and louder then rattleRATTLERATTLEKNOCKKNOCKKNOCK _____ engine shuts off. Mind you Im doing 60 at the moment, I pop start it in 5th. KNOCKKNOCKKNOCKBOOOM... off again.

At this point I know the engine is trash. I thought it was a rod bearing. So I spent that new years coasting/pushing my car into a taco bell parking lot and waiting until after midnight until my buddy came to pick me up... Well after I had the engine out and on a stand I pulled the head and saw one piston flush with the deck and cracked, drained the oil and roll it over and heard nothing but loose pieces bouncing around in the pan. "oooh thats not good."

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[NHerron]

Heh..
Observant one, starfawkes is

Benefit o doubt, he's reallllllly a helpful guy that has some good advice and knowledge. Kind too- just peep that avatar. What? Na, he wouldn't fluff threads to get around the whole membership system, that's crazy!

 

[bmxfelon420]

What? This cant cost more than a hundred bucks to fix, right?

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[91-GS]

Just do this:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UMaO-2sg-RY/T8-EYtCONAI/AAAAAAABJbk/6NKoooBKtO0/s1600/2.jpg

 

[Zmann42087]

What? This cant cost more than a hundred bucks to fix, right?

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that's terrible! is that your car?

 

[TSIMonsteR]

I wanna play!!!

The first pic says it all. You guys had to remove oil pans and heads to get to your issues. (aside from the burnt car, I got nothin on that). My rod decided it was tired of being confined to that small space and then the prison break happened.

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[bmxfelon420]

that's terrible! is that your car?

Unfortunately yes. A bunch of oil pooled in the exhaust from the turbo, caught on fire and burned the whole engine bay basically. My BOV was a melted puddle of aluminum on the ground with a spring sticking out. I did reuse the intercooler, but I have to fix the drivers side bracket because it got boogered up a bit:

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EDIT: So I bought my GSX to replace the Talon, and it had less than 1k miles on a rebuild. Great I said, drove it home. Over the next few weeks it started making a noise like a supercharger. But everything ran fine, so I didnt worry too much. Then at the Shootout the oil pressure got lower and lower and lower. We could see oil physically circulating in the head and it sounded fine, so I didnt worry too much. I assumed the sending unit was junk. Well, after driving the whole way home with the needle bottomed out on the stock gauge, about 10 miles from home the light came on and the car started making strange sucking noises. Like it'd run, then run wierd for a minute, then i'd hear "WOOSH" and it'd go back to normal.

Well, as it turns out, there WAS actually a problem. It made a terrible knocking noise at idle after I parked it, so we dropped the pan because ther was a dent in it and I suspected the pickup was blocked. This is what we found:

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You sir, are not oil! You are a stub shaft! You belong on the oil pump! Not in the pan! You're drunk, go home.

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So it actually fell off of the gear, knocked around in the bottom end a bit and settled down there. What the noise turned out to be was the oil just streaming out into the bottom end and running the pan dry. More pics of fun:

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So yeah, dont necessarily trust that someone knows how to torque/use loctite on a stub shaft. It trashed two of the rods, one of the pistons, well except for that pretty much ruined the longblock. I did reuse one of the rods for my 2.4 build though, so at least there's that. I had to use a 1g CAS and adapter though because my threaded cams have melted aluminum on them so the 2gb CAS wont work.

 

[oren hughbanks]

Wow that is a epic failure! Bad Mr stub shaft!

 

[91-GS]

Please explain how a stub shaft can jump out like that. From what i remember it is held in place by one of the timing belt pulleys, so if it's gone, the pulley will be to and the engine would simply shut down because timing belt would loose tension. That's on a 1G though, 2G might be different.

 

[2g spyder eclipse]

What? This cant cost more than a hundred bucks to fix, right?

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Shit will buff out.

 

[Mitsumungst-gvr4-tsi]

Mine was all from the balance shaft belt. It shredded and somehow wedged itself into the balance shaft and knocked it loose just slightly and number 4 rod came around and smacked it. Blew half the rod and wrist pin 2-300' from the car and piston was shattered ! You can see the rest, oil pan has 6-10 big holes haha. Didn't even touch the head and other than a few hits the cranks bearing surface is still perfect on all 4!

 

[bmxfelon420]

Please explain how a stub shaft can jump out like that. From what i remember it is held in place by one of the timing belt pulleys, so if it's go, the pulley will be to and the engine would simply shut down because timing belt would loose tension. That's on a 1G though, 2G might be different.

On a 2g it bolts to the back of one of the gears in the oil pump. So once it fell off, the gear just spewed most of the oil out of the now vacant hole instead of through the oil galleries. The supercharger sound was the gear being misaligned and chewing into the oil pump housing and the other gear. The housing was completely junk.

BTW thats insane, it tore that rod like it was taffy there.

 

[91-GS]

Ah, ok. Got confused about what's driving what in there. So timing belt drives the pulley, it turns one gear in the pump. That turns second gear, and that second gear turns the balance shaft.