Ioku Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 So me and a friend picked up a GL10 turbo for $150 knowing it at least had bad head gaskets but it turned out being much worse. Last weekend I tore the engine apart and found this, pulled off the intake manifold and found a hole in the top of the block I then pulled the engine and and split the block and found that one of the rods had sheared off and another one had smashed through the piston. hole in cylinder wall looks like it was run low on oil as all the rod bearings were almost gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbone Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Seen it before, havent actually done it myself. ib*********saysgofigure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john in KY Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxy Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 That's what happens when some fool who should only ever walk anywhere and never have any pets ignores noise and accelerates harder to overcome the loss of power from a big end failure.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caboobaroo Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 I blew my last EA82T like that. But it was an SPFI shortblock with gen 3 turbo heads and I had already blown the ringlands off of 2 pistons. Had to end my EA82T run with a bang, literally! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralDisorder Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 That's a pretty typical rod bearing failure. The EA82T is well-known for those. I wouldn't have bothered dissasembling it - that was kind of a waste of time. Hole in block = no salvageable parts. GD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ioku Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 I only dissembled it to see what had happen to it, never planed on using any of it, plus the scrap metal place gives you more money for aluminum if all other metals are separated from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthWet Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 I have two of those that I got from others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subynut Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Wow... Note to self: Never run engine out of oil: it breaks things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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