gunman_sr5
07-18-2008, 12:48 AM
I blew up another Zetec tonight...
This is my second motor. My first one blew with no warning back in Virginia 5k miles after I bought it with 114k miles on the car. I drove down a flooded street one day and couldn't get out of it by the time I knew how deep it was. So I had to keep trucking on. A month later it threw a rod.
3 1/2 years later with 186k on car and 141k on motor similar events, but I thought I had salvaged the motor. About a month and a half ago we had some major flooding in the area. I posted pics at the time. One of my main routs to get home flooded and I had to drive down 10 miles of mildly flooded roads with no way to turn back. Then when I thought all was clear I hit a 1.5 foot deep section and flooded out the motor. I got it home and all dried out.
We did some emergency flood maintenance to the motor to flush everything out. The only questionable sign at the time was compression on #3 was down to 160 where the others were still at 185. no biggie less the 30% difference.
So now 5k miles later on my way to work. I was cruising down the highway doing 75 as always. I hear a pop and lost a cylinder. I then smell burning rubber and see smoke. So I pull over and shut the car off to check things out. Looked at the tires first. Yep all up, and smoke is from under the hood. At this point I figured I threw a rod again, but hoped for something else. Got the hood up. Coolant lines are all intact and belts on. So I climb under the car and find the puddle. Yup threw a rod. Fired it up again got to 75mph no prob and drove the mile to the next exit and parked at the gas station.
crazy34 came to get the car. We got it loaded up. I looked at the lower part of the block with a nice clean hole adjacent to cylinder 3. Good news is working as part of a ZX2 dirt track racing team we keep parts on hand. I should have the motor in by Saturday night. It has 100k but oh well. Saves me gas over the Explorer. It also gives me an excuse to put my Fidanza flywheel in to.
Just thought I would share this. I needed to blow off some more steam.
This is my second motor. My first one blew with no warning back in Virginia 5k miles after I bought it with 114k miles on the car. I drove down a flooded street one day and couldn't get out of it by the time I knew how deep it was. So I had to keep trucking on. A month later it threw a rod.
3 1/2 years later with 186k on car and 141k on motor similar events, but I thought I had salvaged the motor. About a month and a half ago we had some major flooding in the area. I posted pics at the time. One of my main routs to get home flooded and I had to drive down 10 miles of mildly flooded roads with no way to turn back. Then when I thought all was clear I hit a 1.5 foot deep section and flooded out the motor. I got it home and all dried out.
We did some emergency flood maintenance to the motor to flush everything out. The only questionable sign at the time was compression on #3 was down to 160 where the others were still at 185. no biggie less the 30% difference.
So now 5k miles later on my way to work. I was cruising down the highway doing 75 as always. I hear a pop and lost a cylinder. I then smell burning rubber and see smoke. So I pull over and shut the car off to check things out. Looked at the tires first. Yep all up, and smoke is from under the hood. At this point I figured I threw a rod again, but hoped for something else. Got the hood up. Coolant lines are all intact and belts on. So I climb under the car and find the puddle. Yup threw a rod. Fired it up again got to 75mph no prob and drove the mile to the next exit and parked at the gas station.
crazy34 came to get the car. We got it loaded up. I looked at the lower part of the block with a nice clean hole adjacent to cylinder 3. Good news is working as part of a ZX2 dirt track racing team we keep parts on hand. I should have the motor in by Saturday night. It has 100k but oh well. Saves me gas over the Explorer. It also gives me an excuse to put my Fidanza flywheel in to.
Just thought I would share this. I needed to blow off some more steam.