Well, I finally got the engine apart today. Not good at all.

The pictures speak for themselves

http://www.nucleartroy.com/theride.html

The front rotor lost compression, and it's not pretty. Looks like I'm in the market for a new engine now, as this one is going to take too many parts to be serviceable again.

Let me know what you guys think.

 

What happen, severe oil starvation to the front rotor? My s5 TII engine had the exact same thing (the moron who sold me the engine did it, not sure what happened to it) Took forever to get it back together and functional again.

 

Your guess is as good as mine. But Ya, I think it wasn't getting any oil at all, or very little oil. the guy I bought the car from rebuilt it himself, so needless to say he does a crappy job. Would it be worth it to try and rebuild the engine, or should I just get a used one?

 

That's beautiful. Take heart, you're not the first to be bitten by crappy engine building. Check out the link below pictures of what happened to a friend of mine. We ended up rebuilding the engine after replacing all the bearings, eccentric, stationary gears, oil seals, oil pump, front cover, torrington bearing assembly and re-porting.

http://www.aaroncake.net/misc/tonypics

 

Is it really that hard to rebuild these engines? I read the haynes manual several times about the rebuild part and it seemed simple enough. I guess i'll find out when i eventually do my own rebuild. Need to figure out how to get that S5 engine from TX to CO...

 

my sentiments exactly... until my first rebuild crapped out after 500 or so miles. I put the thermal pellet in backward.. DOH!!

THAT sucked... otherwise that would have been a strong running rebuild.


dont overtorque anything, and check everything twice.

the stationary gear bolts are easy to overtorque...so are the oil pump bolts.

 

It's not hard when your parts are within spec.

It's when stuff goes bad like bearings and stuff which makes it all the more $$ and time consuming.