Ello, I'll try and keep this short, but stuffed if I know what's going on.. I always changed oil and filters regularly with mobil 1 and the temperature has never exceeded 100 even driving through beach sand.
Some months back I tried to start it (2003 Overland) and the thing would "rattle rattle rattle" but after turning it off and back on again it ran smooth as silk. This happened 3 or 4 times but after turning it off and on again it would run fine so I just assumed it was a bad connection to one of the electrics... one of those intermittent type faults.
Recently after making a short few km trip it happened again but re starting didn't solve the issue. It kept running like that.. luckily I was only a few kms from home.
Has my well looked after engine destroyed itself out of the blue
It's got around 220,000 on the clock.
Sorry about the really bad and shakey video - I have a broken wrist and the car is parked right alongside a fence so it was really difficult to do and I was trying to hurry incase it only did more damage (if that's even possible at this stage).
If anyone could please provide some or all of:
- What do you think is wrong?
- Is the engine really dead or can it be fixed? It was a great engine.
- What was the cause of whatever is wrong? even though the cause is a moot point would like to know.
Thanks
https://youtu.be/P7_LQLuhFZM