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Not mine thankfully... This is a '90 22RE that dropped a valve head into the cylinder... It didn't run too well after that.... 
Ouch...
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I don't know too much, just saw it at a friends shop... I'd guess that maybe a valve adjuster worked loose, and the piston started hitting the valve and eventually broke it...?
wow yea, that Chinese head when the valve broke it just locked the engine up, that said it broke when i was just starting off a stop light had it broke at 3500 going down the road i can see it doing that much damage. any pics of the head?
NorCalBorn
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15 Year
I've seen that a few times in my life w/ interference motors and always chuckle and grin saying "Hammer Time"? 
Show n tell
I got a few from work,it's pretty awesome.where in the world did the piston went?
this is a 3.7l Jeep that drop a valve seat a month after a head replacement.
I got a few from work,it's pretty awesome.where in the world did the piston went?
this is a 3.7l Jeep that drop a valve seat a month after a head replacement.
Oil starvation
Sludge build up starve the right bank head and this was driven to the shop from another shop.this is painful to watch coz it cost the owner almost 9k to replace it
Sludge build up starve the right bank head and this was driven to the shop from another shop.this is painful to watch coz it cost the owner almost 9k to replace it
NorCalBorn
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I remember you sending me those. Must be a thing unique to Dodge owners?
this is the cam that was in the head when i bought it, 50 miles and it looked like this.
NorCalBorn
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That there's one of them new fangled high revving low displacement high compression cam lobe profiles you run synthetical 0w20 I hear dem's city kids talking 'bout?
China
It must be made in
China for a cam to last 50 miles.
It must be made in
China for a cam to last 50 miles.
well the bad thing is i kept thinking it was something i did wrong, 8 miles after a new cam and all new rockers and rocker shafts #1 exhaust valve snapped at the keeper and fell into the piston, the shaft snapped and was in the muffler, shattered the piston, and bent the rod.
I have quite a few stories about people locking motors up but no pics unfortunately. A couple of the more memorable ones:
5SFE Camry DRIVEN IN with a rod hanging out the front of the block. (Literally had a hole at least the size of a fist and the block was all broken around the front motor mount.)
2UZ Tundra where the guy didn't change his oil for almost 100,000 MILES (I am not exaggerating) before it locked the cam down so bad it actually sheared the end of the cam off with the cam timing gear and bolt still in tact.
Good times.
5SFE Camry DRIVEN IN with a rod hanging out the front of the block. (Literally had a hole at least the size of a fist and the block was all broken around the front motor mount.)
2UZ Tundra where the guy didn't change his oil for almost 100,000 MILES (I am not exaggerating) before it locked the cam down so bad it actually sheared the end of the cam off with the cam timing gear and bolt still in tact.
Good times.