Well that escalated quickly (bullet dodged hopefully)

"DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By" (ducst3-red-1liter-standing-by)
04/25/2018 at 14:53 • Filed to: None

The fiesta has been misfiring on cylinder 3 lately. I swapped out all the plugs and the coil in cylinder 3 with no luck. Then is decided it didn’t want to start on Monday. Eventually it coughed into life. I suspected either a dying fuel pump or a bad injector on #3. So I dropped it off this morning and........ Cracked block. Thank god for the power train warranty.

DISCUSSION (17)

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By
04/25/2018 at 15:02

Wow that’s crazy. You should not crack a block on a totally stock car. Seems like, as with the RS Ford tried to shave off a bit too much weight in the open deck block

bob and john > DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By
04/25/2018 at 15:03

okay there Neo tone it down a bit.

HammerheadFistpunch > DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By
04/25/2018 at 15:04

cracked block? dang. casting defect or just assembled wrong I wonder. I wonder how you crack a stock block in this day and age.

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > HammerheadFistpunch
04/25/2018 at 15:06

Ask Chevy about porous blocks on the ecotec stuff

It happens usually imperfections in a cast or just weak points that are due to poor process or materials beingpoor.

Stapleface > DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By
04/25/2018 at 15:07

Kind of surprised you had a powertrain warranty with it buying it used. Thank the automotive gods for warranty transfers!

DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By > HammerheadFistpunch
04/25/2018 at 15:09

It might have something to do with the overheating issue it had when I bought it. That thought did cross my mind when buying it, but I was put at rest by the warranty

HammerheadFistpunch > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
04/25/2018 at 15:10

I remember the porous blocks. I guess thats what Im asking. Hoping that its a bad cast versus a design fault.

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > HammerheadFistpunch
04/25/2018 at 15:13

I would bet bad or something along those lines.

For the most part I don’t think the block design has changed much in the years they have been using this engine design. So you would see a lot more failures due to cracks if it was a poor design where if its a bad cast itll be 1 in 1000 or something

BeaterGT > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
04/25/2018 at 15:15

I thought the same thing when my friend told me his block was cracked on his 2009 Civic. Sure, it was a commuter car but aren’t most of them? Clearly it’s not related to power output.

jimz > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
04/25/2018 at 15:21

porosity is always a potential problem with aluminum casting, even high-pressure die casting. aluminum oxidizes so rapidly that any oxide inclusions can lead to cracks or leaks.

back in the old days when sand casting was still the primary way to cast aluminum parts, often times the inside surface was coated with Glyptal to prevent fluid leaks.

vondon302 > DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By
04/25/2018 at 15:23

Bullet dodged!

vicali > DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By
04/25/2018 at 15:33

Cracked block..

Kinja'd!!!

PatBateman > DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By
04/25/2018 at 16:33

Did you ask them for an LS instead?

DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By > PatBateman
04/25/2018 at 17:14

ha! now that I would like to see. I think the front seats would be moved back a couple feet!

jonny11quest > DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By
04/25/2018 at 18:12

Just put the LS in the back :)

pip bip - choose Corrour > DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By
04/26/2018 at 06:05

cracked block?

how the hell did that happen?

DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By > pip bip - choose Corrour
04/26/2018 at 10:37

It was running very hot when I bought it and low on coolant. Plus the cap was broken inside the tank so you couldn’t add more coolant. I decided to take the risk since it was so cheap and still under warranty worst case scenario. I’m guessing some cheap ass decided to save 50 bucks by not replacing the expansion tank and it overheated