It still ran... The complete total destruction tear down 1995 Suburban

[matuva]

Sorry, couldn't resist :rof:

Damn, the fact is that I would hate to have my engine blown like that .... What did happen ? Drag racing ? Truck pulling ? lack of oil ?...

 

[Veg_Out]

You are the winner! Greatest demolition I've seen so far.

 

[94blazer]

If you think the pictures look bad, you should have seen it in person. The photos of #8 don't do it justice. The entire piston skirt was on the oil pickup, The engine oil had the color and consistency of mercury. There was literally chunks of piston in every rod and main bearing.

The only thing I can compare it to was the time I dropped a valve seat at 4000 rpm in a Corvair.

It looks like the piston skirt came apart, the rod started knocking on the cylinder wall, the piston got cocked at TDC, valves hit the piston, and finally the rod went through the cylinder into the water jacket... in 4 places.


Oh well, least you got a good timing chain cover out of it!

 

[WarWagon]

The sludge was dumped out and reading part numbers on the parts not fitting through the oil drain plug did concern me. So there was fresh oil put in to help clean up the sludge for tear down. Looks like there was little hope of that helping anything.

Maybe this shot does it a little more justice.