The motor exploded....

[Mickk]

So, my nephew had a little problem with his car the other day.

Apparently his motor 'blew up' (his words) when he was coming back from a friends place.

We *think* that the oil pump seized and stopped doing it's job.

This the result.....



Yep, that is the crank you can see there.



Being able to see daylight through the motor in that area is NOT a good thing, right?

*crappy photos courtesy of my phone camera.

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[sindroms]

DucTTape.

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[SMGSterlin]

You're sure that "oil pump seized" doesn't mean "I was racing and ran the engine too hard and long", right?

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[Mickk]

You're sure that "oil pump seized" doesn't mean "I was racing and ran the engine too hard and long", right?

Nope, due to events that happened a few weeks previous, there was no way he was going to be doing something like that.

If the cops had of caught him doing it, it would have meant doing time in jail due to what I mentioned in the previous sentence.

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[Zahas]

by the look of it, it's an old car, right? like 2000-2004?

[Fifty.]

2000-2004 is old? Damn.
*looks at the Lada in front and blushes in shame*

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[Mickk]

by the look of it, it's an old car, right? like 2000-2004?

Yep, it's an 'old' car.

The car in question is a 1990 Nissan Pulsar Q, so that would make it 20 odd years old, I'm not too interested in being accurate as regards to how old it is.

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[Mickk]

Little update.

It's proving to be a little difficult to get another motor, as the people we are dealing with, who told us they had one, have just discovered that it is very likely that the motor in question is currently on it's way to Lebanon of all places with a number of other engines.

I reckon that's one motor we aren't going to be seeing again.

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[Echo 7-7]

Being able to see daylight through the motor in that area is NOT a good thing, right?

No...

If there's a hole, then what happened to the part that broke off?

Yep, it's an 'old' car.

The car in question is a 1990 Nissan Pulsar Q, so that would make it 20 odd years old, I'm not too interested in being accurate as regards to how old it is.

I like to gauge the age of the car by the odometer, not the actual date of manufacture. However, if the car was out of oil, this does bad things to the engine regardless of how old it is...

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[Mickk]

*snip*
If there's a hole, then what happened to the part that broke off?

*snip*

I like to gauge the age of the car by the odometer, not the actual date of manufacture. However, if the car was out of oil, this does bad things to the engine regardless of how old it is...

I'm guessing that it made it's way out of the engine, at some speed too by the looks of things.

I reckon the oil pump failed and a conrod got way too hot, said "that's enough" and failed, so it wasn't a case of there not being oil in the motor, just a problem with oil not getting to where it needed to be.

You can see the crankshaft in the first photo or more to the point you can see a section of the crank where a conrod *should* be.

The photo was taken a few minutes after we got the motor out, so the motor hasn't been disassembled yet.

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