Josh C.
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- August 28, 2011
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- City, State
- Live in: Santa Ana, CA - - - From: Oshawa, Ontario
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1998 Mounty v8 AWD
1998 Mercury Mountaineer 5.0
Yesterday I was on the freeway and my engine started to rattle and a lost power, it didn't shut down but it didn't sound right. As of right now we know that piston #1 broke apart and messed up the cylinder, it's at my mechanic right now. I dont have much experienece on the insides of vehicle engines
Now for the fun part and why I need peoples opinion...this is the third time in 7 years this has happened, cylinder #1 failing. And to make this even more interesting it has always happened on the same part of the freeway. For the locals here in Southern California/Orange County it happens on the Southbound 73 as you go through Newport Beach to the tolls plaza. There is a pretty steep incline for about a 2 miles on this part of the freeway, I have 33x12.5 so to keep at around 60mph I am running around 3000rpm. I'm usually on this part of the freeway at least once a week
So my question is, do any of you know why this happens and what can be modified to fix it?
I don't know if the steep angle for a few minutes is keeping oil or coolant from properly reaching cylinder #1?
Any help or insight would be appreciated
Any help
Yesterday I was on the freeway and my engine started to rattle and a lost power, it didn't shut down but it didn't sound right. As of right now we know that piston #1 broke apart and messed up the cylinder, it's at my mechanic right now. I dont have much experienece on the insides of vehicle engines
Now for the fun part and why I need peoples opinion...this is the third time in 7 years this has happened, cylinder #1 failing. And to make this even more interesting it has always happened on the same part of the freeway. For the locals here in Southern California/Orange County it happens on the Southbound 73 as you go through Newport Beach to the tolls plaza. There is a pretty steep incline for about a 2 miles on this part of the freeway, I have 33x12.5 so to keep at around 60mph I am running around 3000rpm. I'm usually on this part of the freeway at least once a week
So my question is, do any of you know why this happens and what can be modified to fix it?
I don't know if the steep angle for a few minutes is keeping oil or coolant from properly reaching cylinder #1?
Any help or insight would be appreciated
Any help