7MGTE Woes.....Thought BHG but Nnnnnno! WTF!

[Bruno Molly]

Originally Posted by twan

so how much coolant is there left in the radiator and reservoir? i know there is two coolant lines going through the throttle body, one day i took them off and it flooded the spark plug valley like you said.
when i was rebuilding this seized engine a while back i found that it over heated and the piston welded itself to the cylinder sleeve and the connecting rod bent itself trying to push the seized piston. your connecting rod probably broke but doesn't necessarily mean it has to go through the block.

anyways good luck! hopefully its not expensive to repair and let us know what happens!

Excellent... I will kno when I drop the oil pan. hopefully i can get away with just replacing the piston and rod. If all goes well, new rings and bearings. Engine has close to 200k on the clock and I was expecting something catastrophic eventually... BHG was what I was expecting...i will update as soon as i kno for sure. Thanks for the ensight. When I bought the car about 10 years ago, The engine that was in it did the same thing you mentioned. It was Toast! In parts, and the head looked like it had been Hammered with a piece of metal and rendered useless. I still have the old head with all the Valves and camshaft but the Block was shot. i scrapped it about 8 years ago...now i wished I had kept it . The Crank was probably still good.