Nope. Right country though

Mitsubishi triton dual cab? L200 I think you call them there..

Close!

Give that man a biscuit! You're right

Probably this one then.

The lovely chaps at John Mitchell Garage inform me that there should be a baffle in the top of the Air Oil Separator which is seems is the part that collapsed and blocked the tube leading into the sump.

Just for reference the AOS is the black cylindrical part here with the hose coming out of the top and also incorporates the oil filler neck.



So all I need to do now is get a replacement with baffle intact and my oil consumption woes should be sorted!

They're a helpful bunch.

In other news I spent a bit of time reading posts on the Pelican Parts forum yesterday and discovered that a steering track rod from a 92 VW Jetta is the same as my 944. Going to pick one up from GSF tomorrow for £13.80 instead of the £180 wanted for the Porsche item.

Time for a slight change as I decided to start preparing the other 944 for a bit of engine removal.

So far I've removed all of the ancillaries and drained all the fluids, the only things left to do are removing the harness and the hoses leading to the heater.

An array of bits scattered around


The empty looking engine bay


And the hole in the sump where the conrod escaped


When I drained the oil I found a bit of mangled up bearing material and attached to the magnetic sump plug there were various flakes of metal. I'm not sure where these are from as surely when the rod snapped it wouldn't leave these little flakes, some which were like iron filings and a couple of much larger bits. I doubt they're from the cylinder wall as that's aluminium but I'm not convinced that isn't damaged.

Another thing of note is that the engine still turns by hand and feels like an engine which isn't completely dead. The engine oil I removed didn't look as old as I was expecting and still had a fairly golden tinge to it but the biggest surprise was spark plug #1 which had a tip with absolutely nothing on it, completely spotless! The inlet valves are also absolutely spotless which isn't surprising as a reconditioned head was fitted to it prior to the failure so if all else fails I can just sell that.

Next step is to order the lifting eyelet which will allow me to pull the engine out and start stripping it down. That and order the new parts needed for the blue car.

944 engines drop out underneath.
The clutch fork pivot shaft has to be pulled out to get the release bearing/spring plate out of the torque tube front bellhousing.

A bit more progress has been made on the white car. It got dragged and pushed (just about with the rusty brakes) into the garage and I continued stripping bits off.




Only bits left to remove now are the exhaust which has so many rusty bolts I can't actually get any tools on the nuts so will have to remove the entire thing in one and the bolts to the torque tube, then I can drop the engine and get it on the stand.