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The FA20 can lick my balls. Such a bitch. Block halves aren’t ease to completely separate when the rod caps need to be removed because the pistons can’t fall through the cylinders like inline engines. The rod caps aren’t easy to remove when the engine is all seized up and the rod bolts are a bitch to get to. I know this is typically done on a bench to ease the process, but I helped it with an angle grinder, since the block was toast and this was only about discovery.
All the other rods looked decent besides the one that broke. I didn’t notice any spun bearings or anything. Bearings had some scratch marks, but it was more consistent with contamination after the fact than excess wear of spinning a bearing.
The rod that snapped off also broke the head of one of the rod bolts off. Was this failure from detonation, preignition or just too much power? The rod clearly peppered the cylinder wall. I didn’t have time to finish checking it all out. I’ll finish Sunday.
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