My friend called me to come take a look at his wife's 01 Corolla. It died on the highway, and they had it towed back to their house. After a real quick once-over, I decided to drop the oil pan, and and take a look inside. First picture is what I found wrapped around the oil pick-up, second picture is the 3 lbs of cylinder wall collected from the sump. My buddy asks "well..can it be fixed cheap".

Picture 3 is a lowly #1 piston ring that lost it's way.

 

Howd that happen?

 

Sucks to be your friend......

 

Well...when I drained the oil before dropping the pan, enough to fill a snapple bottle half-way came out. That was my first clue that things are Veerrrry wrong.

 

So can it?

:af:

 

Prolly not. Considering the amount of work it'll take to fix the block, I advised him to just get a new motor. Anyone one have one available?

 

get a 2JZ-GTE h:

 

I don't think that I could convince him to do a swap to a higher performance, and EXPENSIVE motor, when his wife can't even manage to keep up on the maintenance for the litle cheap 1.8

 

OH SNAP!!!! She was probably mad haulin from the pigs y0!

 

ya id say they would need a new engine, looks like they were running on minimal oil and she probebly tried to hit the gas and the RPMs went up and then BOOM. what happened to the piston head? well at least the wristpin is still in the rod :reechy: