Whats wrong...??

[fatfires]

Surely the fact that you are asking these questions proves that you don’t really know what you are doing?
How reliable is the engine going to be once you get it running again?

There must be plenty of the little 2.4 engines available so why not just get yourself another engine, or as others have said get a V8 fitted.

Or perhaps get a push bike?????????

[speedymacfish]

Well as you say... Maybe i'm not 100% in the know.... but is that not what this site is for..? I know as much as i need to know, but also need a little help on things i may not have thought of on my own...... If replacing the rings fails to get my beast up and running again then i'll either get a new engine or a van to convert into a camper..... You'll all know by this saturday.....


Oh I already have 2 push bikes.....

[surfenstein]

i'll put my five eggs worth in now.i think you have forgotten one very important thing.its not just the engine block that uses the oil from the sump.think about it.what lubricates the TURBO if that crap you put in the oil has destroyed the main bearings,then i cant see that it has done the small end bearings,the camshaft bearings and the turbo bearings any good whatso ever.let alone anything else that was being lubricated by the oil.there are small bore holes behind the oil control /scrapper rings and commpression rings,in the ring grooves,these have most propably been blocked and the rings have dug into the parent bore.so i may be wrong here but my bet is that everything the oil has touched has been mullered.

[dieselboy]

i agree that mullered is a useful word.

[danielsprague]

I'm just doing a complete rebuild, so this is the sort of thread which keeps me awake at night. I didn't catch what happened to your engine (sharp bits of metal?), but sounds like you might have blocked oil passages.

Did you check the oil pump and the pressure-release valve?

Did you check the oil nozzles which squirt oil up onto the undersides of the pistons?

As said earlier, there are oil passageways in the pistons themselves - three holes each side into the oil control ring land, plus the hole into the little-end bush, and a whole either side onto the gudgeon pin.

Did you replace the oil filter?

Did you take off the filter bracket and clean it?

Did you clean the oil passageways which run through the crankshaft?

I never found any 'pin hole' oil holes, and if the oil pump is working, the oil pressure would blast stuff out of most places, possibly straight into your bearings though.

If you put metal filings into the engine, they are most likely to make their way to the sump, and should be caught in the oil filter. But I don't know the complete story.

Sounds like you need to clean the block properly - I took mine to a jetwash and blasted the f*** out of it, dried it with compressed air, then oiled it up. Cheap and easy way of being sure.

Hope it doesn't take too long.

Daniel

[Apache]

He basically poured 'heat cured glue' into the oil. It may well prove trashed

[SoundsDigital]

I'd say the turbo is glued up. But before you dash out and buy another turbo, I suspect you will find the list of problems is going to grow and grow.

You will need to change everything that has any kind of contact with the oil. Realistically, this means that about the only bit of your engine that is going to be reliable is the thermostat.

You have made a very expensive mistake, I seriously urge you to cut your losses and get another engine. Even if you do get this one running again, the odds are some of this glue is going to still be in there somewhere and oneday it is going to get dislodged and end up goodnes knows wear (sic) in the engine, leaving you with yet another rebuild.

I feel for you, I really do, but you seem to be blundering from one stupid mistake to another.