rod knock ? help please

[WNY964x4]

You must live in the bermuda triangle of engines. I've NEVER seen a bad pump....and only one or two jammed ones (crap gets into the pump and locks it up).

i must , i think it is the climate of the area i live in , who knows , but most times i have encountered an oilpressure problem , something has gone bad with the pump

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

oil pump failures are a rarety here as well. your more likely to find excess silicone plugging the pickup screen than a failed pump.

in the case of my escort, it was wallowed rod bearings (and a blown head gasket, and a cracked head, and a cracked piston, and stuck piston rings, and...) likely due to a combination of mileage and poor maintainence:

imagine if id driven with antifreeze in the crank for a few more days

 

[WNY964x4]

looks like it would have made life even more interesting , cant wait till tommorow though , i am gonna pull the motor apart before i head back down to school

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

im interested to hear what you find...keep us posted.

 

[almostclueless]

oil pump failures are a rarety here as well. your more likely to find excess silicone plugging the pickup screen than a failed pump.

in the case of my escort, it was wallowed rod bearings (and a blown head gasket, and a cracked head, and a cracked piston, and stuck piston rings, and...) likely due to a combination of mileage and poor maintainence:

imagine if id driven with antifreeze in the crank for a few more days

more like a combination that includes running it up to 6500....don't lie LOL

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

those little 1.9's dont have no piss below 5 grand...

 

[WNY964x4]

wll , i didnt get around to pulling the pan off today , had to put all the tractors away , put the plow on the F-150 , grease the gate down to storage and move the immobile caddy , so now the engine is being used as ballast in the plow truck , i will try as soon as possible to get it apart , it doesnt help i have no way of getting it off the 150

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

open the tailgate, back up really fast, slam on the brakes?

you get snow already where your at?

 

[WNY964x4]

open the tailgate, back up really fast, slam on the brakes?

you get snow already where your at?

well i want to try and save the block and heads

and yes , it is snowing right now , the town i live in is about 50 miles east of lake erie , and 50 miles south of lake ontario , so we get lake effect snow from both directions.

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

well dang....its still like 50 degrees here

gotta love that ocean climate.

 

[WNY964x4]

i found the problem , got the pan off today and started trying to move each connecting rod side to side , number 4 had quite a bit of play , and these are the bearing that come out

the rest of the bearings were starting to become pitted , i got the pump out and the drive mechanism works fine , and the screen is clean

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

haha, sweet!

i wonder if the crank is salvagable...

 

[WNY964x4]

haha, sweet!

i wonder if the crank is salvagable...

not exactly sure yet , the engine is half apart in the bed of the 150 , i had my crappy tools at the house , i am taking some of better tools home on tuesday , so hopefully i can finish pulling it apart

 

[WNY964x4]

well the motor has been reduced to a pile of parts , a pile of parts that the only ones i threw out were the head gaskets and the harmonic balancet , since i messed it up getting it off the crank , but now i have a nice pile of 3.0 parts , the crank is salavageable , the bearing did not dig in too bad , no permanent damage , but i cannot figure out what caused the problem , i spun the cam by hand with the oil pump connected to the cps , and the pump drive spun fine , plus the screen was not blocked , so what would cause a random loss in oil pressure ?

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

thats a spun bearing. might not have been caused by anything, it just "happens" sometimes.