Focus 1.8 petrol - anyone recognise this?

[john2443]

My daughter was driving her 08 1.8 petrol Focus, there was a bang and all the oil fell out of it.

I towed her home and when I took the undertray off I found this, a circlip and some shrapnel of casting.

Anyone know what it is? There's nothing easily visible, I've taken the cam cover off and the cams and followers are all there. Both ends have been broken off.

(Although 'Expensive' is probably the correct answer, it isn't the most helpful one )

Thanks

[paul_c123]

Looks like a wrist pin, or part of a wrist pin. To save time, look at the engine block at the back (the inaccessible bit) as well as front, there is probably a hole in the side of the block.

[H6CJF]

Oil pressure relief valve? .. could be wrong but I believe on that engine it’s part of the oil filter housing and held in by a circlip. Any sign of a spring too?

[john2443]

Thanks for the replies...crawled under this afternoon, the good news is the engine's fine, the bad news, there's a hole in the gearbox where the gears have tried to escape!

At least we know what we're dealing with, may well get scrapped anyway but at least it should be worth a bit more with a running engine!

[paul_c123]

Normally you can tell by smell if its engine oil or gearbox oil. Gearbox oil raw honks. Can't really describe what its like........fishy??

[E-bmw]

I would have thought a gearbox for one of those would be cheap as chips & not a bad job to do on the driveway in a day or weekend.

If she likes the car then "better the devil you know" & all that.

[stevieturbo]

As above, wouldn't think a gearbox would be too hard to source and should be a fairly easy job to get going again.

[JONATHAN_11_80]

Replacement ib5 gearboxes are plentiful. Put another one in and your good. Good solid cars otherwise compared to modern ste

[InitialDave]

Yep, slap a new gearbox in and off you go.

Worth doing the clutch while you're in there.