Is it bad when you can see your crank shaft?

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THERE SHOW BLOWS

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Look at the boof mark on the crank AND I DONT CARE ABOUT MY DOUBLE POST.

*EDIT by swartlkk* - Use the EDIT feature.

 

Look at the boof mark on the crank AND I DONT CARE ABOUT MY DOUBLE POST.

 

That's just a love tap...

 

That's purdy! Must have lost a rod. Are you sure it didn't make any noises before it died on ya?? How loud did you have the music cranked?

 

At about 20 out of 35.... You can still hear cars and trucks passing you


So yeah, shopping time, lol.

 

Wow..so..what part exactly is missing? For the non-engine-part literate..that's the lower engine, blew off the oil pan and a bit more? The crankshaft sits at the bottom of the V right?

Pardon my ignorance

 

The oil pan is actually a structural part of the engine on the newer engines, don't know when it started. Meaning there's no separate oil pan that you can drop with a gasket in between. Looks like the actual casing cracked and fell off.

 

Ah ok..yea I can definitely see the cracked/broken edges on the left and right of the pic.

 

The oil pan is still replaceable even though it is a 'structural' part of the engine. The change happened between '97 & '98 when they moved from the stamped steel pan to the cast aluminum pan. The aluminum pan is sealed with an o-ring as opposed to the old gasket that could be over compressed.

From the looks of it, something came loose in the rotating assembly (#1 or #2 cylinder rod would be my guess) and smashed the pan good. No other reason for that to happen really...