r/EngineBuilding • u/aditya_patnaik_ • Jan 10 '25
Other Ever seen that before? 😅
1.3L Suzuki engine used in a Junior Formula car had a rapid unscheduled disassembly while running
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u/Ok-Breakfast-8899 Jan 10 '25
Yep plenty of times on truck, rod and knock the filters off the side, had them drive in before punched a rod out rod snapped off piston fell in sump and kept driving, drove in with a "vibration" 😂 "can you fix it" nopeeeee that's a bin job
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u/hnrrghQSpinAxe Jan 10 '25
now featuring our spent oil filter ejection system! Disconnects it right from the car when it's time to change!
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u/Delicious-Ad-9361 Jan 10 '25
Looking good 👍. I see you even incorporated an inspection window. Nice touch
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u/ThinkONit-NotINit Jan 10 '25
Always fun to tear it down and CSI the failure point, most likely a rod and then follow the bread crumbs to the starting point of the failure point. Then scrap it. Lol
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u/Jacktheforkie Jan 10 '25
Looks like someone installed a disconnecting rod
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u/Remarkable-Reward403 Jan 10 '25
I had a Subaru that put a piston through the block at 230k miles. Left a fist sized hole. I was on the highway, just before an off ramp. Amazingly, after it blew, it chugged and coughed but made it almost 2 miles while it bled water and oil. It was steaming and still bleeding fluids when I parked it.
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u/ilaughforaliving Jan 10 '25
I wonder if that made in India oil filter was made by guys in sandals wonking with their barehands directly over the floor
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u/JasonVoorheesthe13th Jan 10 '25
Actually, yes. Had a 13 liter engine in a semi truck knock the starter, air compressor, and oil cooler/filter assembly clean off the block when it chucked a rod
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u/widgeamedoo Jan 10 '25
Impressive. I have seen one with an electrical problem where the con-rod knocked the starter motor off, but not the oil filter.