hey guys my mate brought in a rb30 into our auto class now when he got the engine for 50 bucks the guy told him that when he was driving the oil light came on then the engine just stopped and i took some pictures on my phone when we opened it up. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

they didnt change oil othen enough, the oil pick up blocked up, wasnt sucking any oil in lost oil pressure spun a bearing, mostlikly the one on conrod number 1 Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

yeh thats what my teacher kinda said kinda interesting though considering i have never seen something this dirty before lol

i get alot of that at work and alot worse too pull off the sump and have a look in there at the pickup

yeh mate i will take some pics of the sump when we get it out lol

my god

looks like someone took a mega sh!t under the rocker cover b4 u opened it lol nice suprise!

I got a motor given to me for free... when I took the manifold off it looked exactly like that. I reckon it had done 100,000 ks since the last oil change. I binned it obviously.

Wait till you do a diesel lol. I rebuilt one at work round 3 weeks ago. No oil change caused bearings to fail. Took me longer i reckon to clean parts than it did to reassemble.

lol your friend paid 50 bucks too much lol

When I started my apprentiship we had a EA that wouldnt turn over. Thought we'd start with draining the oil. Pulled the plug, none came out. Thought ahh ok easy, ran out of oil. Got engine out, pulled sump off and the sump was still full ..... never had oil change and the oil turned to greese. Funny as hell ... looked the same as that. How sad not spending $40 to change oil + filter.

Had a similar issue with my wagon. It was prob worse than that. We spent 5 hrs and fixed it and it cost us 12 bucks for a sump gasket. Thing runs quiet as a mouse and doesnt use/burn any oil!

Quote: Originally Posted by YEP_boost Had a similar issue with my wagon. It was prob worse than that. We spent 5 hrs and fixed it and it cost us 12 bucks for a sump gasket. Thing runs quiet as a mouse and doesnt use/burn any oil! And does mad skids

much degreaser? lol

Yes, we pulled the sump off, tanked the pick up as it was partially blocked. Then soaked the top end with degreaser and let it run down through the oil drains onto a big tray. Once cleaned and dried out we oiled everything up, put the sump back on. I soaked all the rocker gear up and cleaned all the inners of the rocker shafts and rockers as they were partially blocked. Thing fired up first kick and doesnt miss a beat! We saved the engine for 12 bucks!

$12 + $100 worth of degreeser man i would of just soaked that in petrol for a couple dfays, haha Great effort to get it that clean though Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Petrol wasnt doing sh1t to it. The stuff was caked on that bad. Besides we did it in an afternoon!