Nothing short of a Miracle

[Smokey Eddy]

So i had been putting off this day for a long time as i expected it to be a very sad time of stripping down my block, taking the pan off, finding tons and tons of wreckage.
I started by pulling the oil cooler flange off and fitting my external cooler thing to it. got the pulleys off... got the dust cover off, took the clutch out & pressure plate.
To my amazement... the vacuum pump took the majority of the beating (of the IM shaft shattering) and the oil pump was fine!!!
DESPITE trying to suck up a huge amount of debris. It all got jammed inside the pick up (which had the mesh filter knocked off of it). I thought, this is too good to be true... so i opened up the pump completely (dang these oil pumps are simple!) and didn't find ANY trace of any debris going through the pump! nothing jammed & nothing had scratched the gears!!!
Hallelujah!!!!



these are just some of the bits i picked out of it

somehow nothing is jammed in the pump it's self


This is the extent of the damage to the vacuum pump

bottom of the pan...

[NintendoKD]

eeewww wreckage   like a train wreck, I just can't take my eyes off

[theman53]

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[Rabbit on Roids]

both rod bolts still have the nuts on them...

[Powered by Spearco]

Looks like mouth wash is $2.00 off  .

[Smokey Eddy]

both rod bolts still have the nuts on them...

Yes they do. If you read my 1.6td/aaz head thread i posted about how the failure was indeed NOT the re-use of con rod bolts but the extended use of the IM shaft bearings which had almost completely dissapeared. The IM shaft siezed on the highway and 10 seconds later the rod cap blew up. The other one was very close as well. it is blackened with burnt oil.

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Compressed air cleaned the pick up right up. Thanks though

[theman53]

Yeah but did it put the screen back in??? LOL. Just let me know if you need it or not as it looked like the screen was MIA.

[fatmobile]

Great pics,.. the bolts stayed in tact, the rods broke, ha

The vacuum pump doesn't look bad in the pics.
 You know there is a seal in the base of it that seals around the oil pump shaft right?,.. old, brittle and black, it often looks like part of the pump.

[rabbitman]

I'm noticing so inconsistencies here.

If the IM shaft seized your oil light should've lit, if you have a dynamic oil system then the buzzer should've gone off.

If the IM shaft seized the oil pump wouldn't have been spinning so it wouldn't have sucked up any metal.

And if the IM shaft bearing was that gone then I think the t-belt would be tracking off into the belt cover really bad.

Thoughts?