Always Late To The Party

[Motoman325]

Long Time No See

Man its been a while, time for a photo dump

Breakdown of the engine

pulled the pan and found this
[IMG]IMG_20161004_141554 by motomanb, on Flickr[/IMG]

and this
[IMG]IMG_20161004_143505 by motomanb, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]IMG_20161004_141559 by motomanb, on Flickr[/IMG]

The actual problem
[IMG]IMG_20161004_161202 by motomanb, on Flickr[/IMG]

the bottom of the rod was nowhere to be found
[IMG]IMG_20161006_133223 by motomanb, on Flickr[/IMG]

Pulled the crank, all the bearings looked like this
[IMG]IMG_20161004_163659 by motomanb, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]IMG_20161004_163706 by motomanb, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]IMG_20161004_163953 by motomanb, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]IMG_20161006_153505 by motomanb, on Flickr[/IMG]

Nothing wrong with the heads, just dirty
[IMG]IMG_20161006_153840 by motomanb, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]IMG_20161006_153844 by motomanb, on Flickr[/IMG]

Found some more fun
[IMG]IMG_20161006_153855 by motomanb, on Flickr[/IMG]

Thats all for the breakdown

Next the fun begins

[Motoman325]

Story Time

The engine blew the last week of August. By this time its the beginning of September before I find another engine and another couple weeks before I actually buy it. It was a used one that needed a rebuild but I had a rebuild kit (couldn't rebuild my original due to a hole in the walls)
So I rebuild it and overcome my fear of setting the timing (its actually really easy, on this motor at least) and torque everything to specs. I get a little worried cause it takes some force to rotate it, but I just keep going cause I did it the "right" way. Putting the engine in a forget to lube the shaft (sorry I had to) the input shaft to the transmission and it doesn't touch leaving a 1/2" gap. I try to close it by tightening the bolts but then get to the oil pan and snap, crack the back of the pan. Would be awesome if I didn't just sell my other pan to get some money.
Pull the motor the second time

[Motoman325]

It's all good take the pan to get welded and $70 and a few days later I'm good to go. Throw the motor back in.
Remember when I said it was hard to rotate the engine, You guesed it,
it wont rotate,
at all, not even with a breaker bar (of course I broke one trying). And surprise surprise it comes back out for the 3rd time. I loosen everything and put it back in and start her up, running only headers it sounds like a race car, I highly recommend it.

But I see some red flags, I got low oil pressure at idle (turns out it was just a sensor) and a loud knocking with the computer throwing 2 codes for the knock sensor.

Yep out for the fourth time

[Motoman325]

At this point I get discouraged, I think about selling it, how can you sell a car you're still paying for? That doesn't have an engine at that.

But God answers prayers, fast forward to December just randomly searching craigslist and [IMG]00y0y_dzRuU3OnlRH_1200x900 by motomanb, on Flickr[/IMG]

The driver is ok, just a few scrathes on his gf.
The motor still runs, he tells me come get it, so i pack up my stuff and 4 hours later the engine is back at my house. A few days later I'm back on the road, driving my car for my birthday.

Next time you think about how bad 2016 was, remember this is after I broke up with my girlfriend and working 6 days a week