RoadWarrior222
07-24-2009, 03:04 PM
Hi guys,
I was over at my Brother In Law's to look at his minivan, '99 Windstar. "It's making a bad noise" ... yup... sure is... and is punching holes in the oil pan too. I figure a rod broke.
How much can you do to that motor from underneath? Are we likely to be able to get the crank out and swap another rod or piston and rod in there?
How hard are these motors to pull?
I think his top end is screwed up also. It was drinking coolant, it was getting it in the cylinders, the guy he bought it off claimed it just had a head gasket, either the guy who put it in was a moron and didn't do it right, or he was a moron and didn't check the head for cracks and "fixed" a bad head with a new HG. It was the front head, oil pan is punched in front, figure it got hydrolock sometime that bent the rod, or got hydrolock just this morning from still having coolant seepage, and it broke then.
Now he's broke at the moment as are we all, dunno if we can get a cheap van with a dead tranny and swap trannies or swap motors, (Tranny is easier I guess) Thing is he put $$$ into this one to get it converted to natural gas.. Think he might have to pay a licensed fitter $$$ to get the parts officially swapped over...
Another thing is that the Canadian govt is still deciding on whether to run a cash for clunkers program, we'll hear a yay or nay in the next 60 days we think, since this officially gets 17mpg, there's a reason to suppose it might qualify, if we can bandaid it enough to limp along a couple of months. Other govt vehicle incentive programs allow the voucher against any vehicle up to 3 years old, so if we get a CFC program for $3500 value, we might be able to get him a pretty nice (highly depreciated) vehicle for only another couple of thousand.... so kinda considering the idea of pulling both the middle pistons and rods, pulling the pushrods and rockers to them, and the injectors and limping it around on 4 cylinders until he can figure out an engine or vehicle replacement.
What say you?
RW222
I was over at my Brother In Law's to look at his minivan, '99 Windstar. "It's making a bad noise" ... yup... sure is... and is punching holes in the oil pan too. I figure a rod broke.
How much can you do to that motor from underneath? Are we likely to be able to get the crank out and swap another rod or piston and rod in there?
How hard are these motors to pull?
I think his top end is screwed up also. It was drinking coolant, it was getting it in the cylinders, the guy he bought it off claimed it just had a head gasket, either the guy who put it in was a moron and didn't do it right, or he was a moron and didn't check the head for cracks and "fixed" a bad head with a new HG. It was the front head, oil pan is punched in front, figure it got hydrolock sometime that bent the rod, or got hydrolock just this morning from still having coolant seepage, and it broke then.
Now he's broke at the moment as are we all, dunno if we can get a cheap van with a dead tranny and swap trannies or swap motors, (Tranny is easier I guess) Thing is he put $$$ into this one to get it converted to natural gas.. Think he might have to pay a licensed fitter $$$ to get the parts officially swapped over...
Another thing is that the Canadian govt is still deciding on whether to run a cash for clunkers program, we'll hear a yay or nay in the next 60 days we think, since this officially gets 17mpg, there's a reason to suppose it might qualify, if we can bandaid it enough to limp along a couple of months. Other govt vehicle incentive programs allow the voucher against any vehicle up to 3 years old, so if we get a CFC program for $3500 value, we might be able to get him a pretty nice (highly depreciated) vehicle for only another couple of thousand.... so kinda considering the idea of pulling both the middle pistons and rods, pulling the pushrods and rockers to them, and the injectors and limping it around on 4 cylinders until he can figure out an engine or vehicle replacement.
What say you?
RW222