Lockett77

It locked up from oil starvation i guess. Within 5 minutes of driving. Oil was everywhere on the driver side tire/axle. It didn't overheat tho. No noises nothing. Died going down the road like my battery died. Here's what i did. Soaked everything in tranny fluid until it unseized. Pulled the engine seeing what damage it's done. Which was Very little surprisingly. Rod bearings/caps connecting rods cylinder walls all looked fine except for a little score mark on one of the cylinder walls. So i spend 2 days sanding everything down hoping the HG'S are still good. And me being a dummy used the arrows putting it back in time. No damage occured nothing was hitting but I've never seen so much smoke in my life lol so i decided well might as well buy a gasket set and piston rings So did all that put it back in did the timing right this time and decided to put sythetic oil in. Which caused bad blow by in the pistons which fouled my plugs quick and burned tons of oil. Drained the sythetic and put regular oil with Lucas oil. And bam runs and sounds just as fine as it did. But I'm definitely not going to rely on this engine this was more of a challenge to see if i could do it. With what little income i have. I appreciate GD's input he has offered a lot of info which has helped a lot along with everyone else on this site. You guys are awesome! But I'm gonna see how long this engine lasts and have a 2.2 standing by when it does crap out. But the cheapest one around is like 900$ with 130k miles lol subaru's are rare around here

GD i think I'm doing just fine as this being my first engine rebuild. Anyone with a little common sense can do this. Trust me if i had the tools and money to re surface spoob and buy a bunch of parts i would it's not that hard to work on an engine. The hardest part is diagnostics The way i see it i took an engine that was completely locked up and got it back to running condition as it was prior for Less than 80$ but thanks for your input as well as everyone else's you guys have been plenty of help

Nah this engine is salvageable. Thanks tho

It's the ej25 DHOC when i mistimed it, it didn't foul any of the plugs but i was using regular oil when i re did everything i used sythetic same weight 10w-30 i used OEM aftermarket headgaskets and rings. but i just pulled the last plug on the cylinder i didn't do any work to and that one is also fouled. Cylinders didn't have oil in them until i used sythetic even with a blown headgasket

I had this engine in pieces nothing is damaged no warping no cracked head rod bearings still good it didn't over heat when it locked up, weird i know. The only thing i noticed was a little score mark in one of the cylinders. Nothing too dramatic

I had this engine in pieces nothing is damaged no warping no cracked head rod bearings still good it didn't over heat when it locked up, weird i know. The only thing i noticed was a little score mark in one of the cylinders. Nothing too dramatic

So My engine locked up, from blown headgasket.got it un stuck. Changed gaskets put it back together and like an idiot i used the arrows on the cams to put it back in time. Started it and immediately turned it off once i noticed tons of smoke pouring out. Took it back apart changed rings and gaskets again just in case Put it correct timing now this time and now I'm getting blow by on the pistons and it's dumping oil in my exausht. Ran it for 10 minutes and burned a full quart Fouling my plugs. i used a synthetic blend oil this time tho. I need opinions.before i take this back apart again. Would the sythetic blend get past my pistons since it locked up and has over 200k miles on it or maybe i screwed up putting the rings back in. What do you guys think?

GD my engine locked up from oil starvation (blown head gasket) so i figured might as well change the rings. And of course i was using the wrong mark on the crank pulley, thanks guys.

My engine locked up on my awhile back so i put new piston rings and new headgaskets on got everything put back together and my left (drivers side) intake camshaft won't line up to its mark it keeps hitting the #2 cylinder. All the other camshafts line up to where they're supposed to. No i didn't mix up camshafts and no valves are bent. What's going on?

When i turn the crank counterclockwise all the pistons move and compress. I'm going to pull the engine today and take a closer look. My theory is: headgasket blew hince the oil and coolant over the wheel well and dropped the oil pressure then starved the engine of oil. Hoping it's something fixable and not a thrown rod. But Any more ideas of what it could be would be greatly appreciated.

The timing is right. Maybe spun a bearing? This puzzles me. Update: It'll turn clockwise but maybe like 10° then stops completely. Still turns counterclockwise fully

The timing is right. Maybe spun a bearing? This puzzles me. Update: It'll turn clockwise but maybe like 10° then stops completely. Still turns counterclockwise fully

So today i was on my way home and my 97 subaru legacy 2.5 just dies on me. Quietly. Threw me off guard it's never just died while driving. I go to start my engine again and nothing. I can hear it trying to start but something's jammed or seized i can hear it. I got it towed home and i look under the car and my entire drivers side wheel well is covered in oil and coolant (headgasket maybe) but no coolant in my oil and no oil in my coolant. I try to manually turn the crankshaft and it doesn't budge. I work on it awhile and it broke free but it's still really hard to turn and it only turns counter clockwise. Doesn't the crankshaft supposed to turn the other way? My question is, would anyone think i have bad internal damage? And would it be worth fixing?

Would anyone know what's going on with this vehicle?

I've tried that but it just does the 16 flashes, but why would my CEL stay on with no codes, I know I have to have a couple since my speedometer doesn't work