IT’S DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep. I killed the motor.

I made a HUGE mistake of putting Marvel Mystery Oil “GAS TREATMENT” into the engine.

Turned the oil into a super thin film and it leaked through all of the seal.

I also developed a rod knock.

Well time to find a 2.2 engine.

*sigh* back to the garage.

 

DOH

thier oil rocks when you put it in with reuglar oil

marvel mystery fuel adiditve i have never used

 

If it makes you feel any better, I just destroyed a brand new motor, 300 miles, with a can of sea foam.

 

wow why did you put sea foam in a new motor

i always used it on older motors

 

Before he motor was replaced it was leaking 1qt of oil every 100 miles. The exhasut side of things had a thick coat of carbon throughout. I figured I'd run the seafoam, clean that crap out and have a clean slate to see if anything further developed. Hind site says, bad idea, why the hell would you use sea foam on a brand new motor.... Live and learn. The thing is I have used it before with no problems. I guess the new internals didn't like the stuff. I'm not entirely sure what happened. I did a compression test on it this morning there's like 20lbs on any given cylinder. I feel pretty stupid.

 

well there was carbon build up on some parts and thats what it is used for so its not a big mistake

you were using it for the right thing.


now if it was all new and you just did it because then yeah i would sayd dumb mistake

i think you did fine

 

Man..... I feel your pain.

good luck w/the rebuild.

BW

 

I was removing the EJ18 motor from my BRAT and as I split the engine/tranny apart I looked at the tranny and I see the back of the flywheel still attached. The engine crank shaft had some broken bolts sticking out of them

So, what I thought was a dead motor/spun crank bearing was actually the flywheel bolts. three bolts snapped off and the rest worked themselves lose.

I got some info that every time you remove the flywheel bolts, you should get new ones. Something about how the torque spec really stretches them out. i also think that when I reamed out my holes for the flywheel, they were not perfect. I think the one that snapped was tough to get in and it may have put some side force on the bolt. I plan to take my reamer to it and give them all a good shaving to make sure that they have adequate clearance. That and buy new flywheel bolts.

 

you can get some ARP flywheel bolts that are re-useable. well worth the $$