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Bought what appeared to be a super clean 2011 LX570. Spotless undercarriage. Engine appeared totally dry. Ran great. Decided to forego a PPI (smart) to try and make a deal on the spot because I thought it would go quick at the price point. Drove it home no issues. Was going to have my mother in law drive it for a few weeks while she was in between cars. She gets it home after a 3 hour drive and says its leaking some oil. I think okay maybe something minor, have it towed to a reputable shop. Dude tells me its literally pissing all the oil out the back of the motor. We're thinking some sort of catastrophic rear main seal failure which seems bizarre. Open it up and someone didn't torque the torque converter bolts down well, they backed out, hit the flywheel, cracked the block. 2 weeks into owning the thing I'm down a motor.
Would a PPI had even caught this?
Probably not in all honesty, such a bizarre failure point.
Any indication of transmission replacement in the service history?
Nope, not even any recent transmission work. Had an alternator done like 20k ago and that was the most recent service.
That sucks to hear. Definitely not a common failure on this platform, hence my suspicion it had been worked on.
Tragic, I’d love to know what happened there. You seem to be handling it far better than I would.
I'm a few months into the grieving process. I couldn't even be mad at the guy that sold it to me because I genuinely think he had no idea either, we had a few conversations and I think he felt bad but ultimately there just wasn't much to be done about it. My best guess is someone did some transmission work on it before he ever bought it, didn't document it, and I was just the lucky winner of the ticking time bomb. Still on the fence about trying to swap it myself or just biting the bullet on the labor but I like this damned rig too much to just sell it as a shell.
Excited too see how yours works out. I just ordered a similar JDM motor with 70k on it yesterday.
