First night in the garage, snow still on the tires.
Several days later, back outside sans powertrain. Here you can see the broken quarterpanel and bent cowl(?).
Valve cover removed (earlier, while engine was still in the car) to check out the head. Notice the oil on the exhaust manifold - either the head gasket had failed and was dumping oil out the front, or that gallery was cracked. Cams look alright here.
Or not, the cams had unusual and rather severe wear on the lobes.
As did the lifters... The oil filter likely bypassed and allowed metal chips to flow freely through this engine.
Scoring on the cam journals. I would almost reuse these, if this were going to be a quick and dirty rebuild.
Greasy back of the block. Head and timing set removed.
Number 3 cylinder with the largest scar. All cylinders were out of round by .0005"
Cross hatching is ~.020" deep, unlike some engines it will always be present.
The lower block disassembled. It's near impossible to see in this picture, but the thrust (taken at the #3 main journal between the two counter-weights) is almost completely gone - it had > .030" play.
Crankshaft, some scoring on the journals. Only one was severe enough to merit a re-grind.
Number 1 main journal had some decent scoring.
Number 3 rod bearing, cap side. Rod bearings receive oil secondary to (and from) the main bearings, thus damage to rod bearings is almost always more significant than damage to main bearings.
Number 2 (IIRC) rod bearing, cap side.
The worst main bearing cap.
Piston, connecting rod, and wrist pin disassembled.
These engines are notorious for burning oil (frequently large quantities) after ~100k miles. This piston was already cleaned, but you can see where the problem lies - the oil drainback holes are tiny dimples in the oil control ring land. The fix is to drill extra drains or use aftermarket pistons. I suspect by the conditions of these pistons this engine was burning 1qt./500 miles.
And the engine is off to the machine shop...
113k
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