Well, my weekend sucked.

I've never had an engine fail spectacularly, and I've tried with a few cars.

That's some impressive carnage.

Yeah, they drop seats all the time. Thats pretty spectacular destruction as a result- the chunks usually just bounce around from cylinder to cylinder through the intake runners.

I hope you didn't use the intake from that motor on the new engine...there may still be chunks in it somewhere.

Yikes!!

Looks like detonation to me. Cracked the piston from one of the ring lands about where the wrist pin is.

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mad_machine wrote: damn.. what was he doing to that poor escort?

That's the normal failure mode for the 2.0 single-cam. Head gets hot for whatever reason, or maybe it just has 200k on it, and a seat drops. I've never heard of it happening in any cylinder but #4, which suggests that there's some localized overheating going on even if the temp gauge is reading normal. The fact that the head gasket had just failed is the kicker.

I think we can consider the science experiment concluded.

One other thing I found. When we pulled the thermostat housing, the thermostat came out in three pieces. Probably a bad sign. We should have done the thermostat when we did the HG. #4 was also the cylinder that was steam cleaned when the HG let loose. Live and learn. Here's hoping the new engine will make at least a year.

For what it's worth, it's done. The engine was hanging at 8:45 this morning and started for the first time by 12:00.

By the time we got all the fiddly bits back in, and the A/C vacuumed and charged, it was 4:00

Not too bad, but berkeley a FWD car. You damn near have to take the world apart to pull the engine. My fat ass is beat.

Oh, and just to complete another great weekend, tomorrow I have to go move the daughter home from college. Naturally she lives on the third floor of the only building at the college without an elevator.

I guess there's always next weekend.

glad to see you got it running

Knurled wrote:

mad_machine wrote: damn.. what was he doing to that poor escort?

That's the normal failure mode for the 2.0 single-cam. Head gets hot for whatever reason, or maybe it just has 200k on it, and a seat drops. I've never heard of it happening in any cylinder but #4, which suggests that there's some localized overheating going on even if the temp gauge is reading normal. The fact that the head gasket had just failed is the kicker. I think we can consider the science experiment concluded.

My sisters car did it twice! First motor did it and grenaded , enabling the bargain purchase price. Then 20k later replacement engine did it but the valve didn't drop all the way saving the engine , Remanned head and it was back in business!