well the other day i was driving on the freeway when my car stalled while going about 85ish. started her back up and got off at my exit. stalled again at the stop sign. started her back up again and got home. now theres a rattling sound coming from the motor. turn her off and check the oil. dip stick not ven reading. wipe it off try again, nothing. i had just got an oil change less than two months ago and i know shes eats oil but 4 quarts already? poored a few quarts in her and went to work the next day. sound continued. so now im thinking i blew a rocker arm or something. today the sound got even louder. sounded like a rod was being tossed around the block not connected to the crank. she died and i had her towed to my buddy's. im hoping ill see that its a rocker arm by just poping off the valve cover.

nope everythings fine. so we do a compression test.

compression is fine, not a piston. gotta be in the block. so we drain the coolant, take off the head, and drop the oil pan.




look at the pretty shiny stuff i found in the oil pan!

metal scraps underneath the #1 piston. we disconnect the rod cap... no rod bearing... its in the oil pan!

the cap and the crank have very jagged surfaces. seems the bearing blew and then rod was grinding on the crank for a bit.

popped the piston out of the top... theyre arent suppose to do this

can you tell where it was getting hot?


so now its time for a b16. moral of the story... check our oil often!

 

Nice pics. Sounds like fun taking part an engine. What about new bearings and just putting it all back together?

 

well the crank is thrashed too. i thought about going the cheap way too and just picking up a d16y7 block...

 

Hmm food for thought.

 

When replacing a rod bearing do you have to pull the head. to get the piston out or can you replace the rod bearing from under neith.

 

I have a rod/piston that suffered a fate something like that, except a chunk was taken out of the rod, the cap was reduced to metal scrap, one of the rod bolts was MIA and the other was bent over 45*. The cylinder was FUBAR'ed.

You're lucky you got it before it broke and took chunks out of the block.

 

^ it was funny the con rod notched the block. You got lucky. I will try to bring my camera tmrw to work to show you guys the block we are talking about.

 

ugh. have the crank polished,etc and toss in some forged pistons and rods and boost that bitch

 

That's always your answer.

 

ya i am so lucky! i was expecting the rod (among other things) to jump out when i dropped the oil pan lol i think i am gonna just go the cheap way for now with another d16 till i have a little more saved up bcuz ill need a swap and a paint job at the same time so i can paint the engine bay. b18c1_hatch im pretty sure youll need to pull the head so you can get the piston all the way out bcuz the bearings need to be machined on the rod.