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[Darth Loo-knee]

[Darth Loo-knee]

The pictures aren't great I know but you can see the sort of crap oil that blocked the oil pick up, which staved the engine of oil

[joshwyatt]

Interesting, the original oil that was in it looked awful, so I had new gm10w40 and new filter put in it...supplied the parts myself and watched it being done. So I guess that could have brought up the crap that was in there and caused the oil pick up to block.
What would be the best way to avoid this do you think in the future? It only did less than 100 miles on the new oil, and it was all filled up to the correct level etc. Some people neglect the oil and never change it, so when it comes round to changing it how can you avoid this? For those that don't know, I wasn't driving the vehicle when the issue ocurred, but I wonder if it'd been stopped as soon as the oil light came on, it'd still be alive?

[Marks DTM Calib]

Yup, blocked strainer resulting in oil starvation, big end has seized and hence the failure.

Its lucky its not thrown a rod!

[Marks DTM Calib]

Interesting, the original oil that was in it looked awful, so I had new gm10w40 and new filter put in it...supplied the parts myself and watched it being done. So I guess that could have brought up the crap that was in there and caused the oil pick up to block.
What would be the best way to avoid this do you think in the future? It only did less than 100 miles on the new oil, and it was all filled up to the correct level etc. Some people neglect the oil and never change it, so when it comes round to changing it how can you avoid this? For those that don't know, I wasn't driving the vehicle when the issue ocurred, but I wonder if it'd been stopped as soon as the oil light came on, it'd still be alive?

On the latter I would guess not.

I wonder if hes flushed the engine.....

[Marks DTM Calib]

Daz, how greasy to the touch is that gold looking slime thats covering everything.....

[CaptainZok]

Its more of a coating than slime Mark and the big ends smelt rather burned when they came off.
As an aside, are the crank journals line bored like the cams?

[Elite Pete]

I think I have a similar problem with a car I just bought. The oil was as black as the ace of spades so I did an oil and filter change. I was going for an MOT last Friday when 20 miles down the road the oil light came on, luckily I popped it into neutral and turned the engine off straight away. I am expecting/hoping to find the same mess in the oil pick up

[Marks DTM Calib]

Its more of a coating than slime Mark and the big ends smelt rather burned when they came off.
As an aside, are the crank journals line bored like the cams?

Yes they are line bored, burning smell is to be expected.

The coating you can see looks very like the sort of thing that slick 50 and similar additives do.

[Andy B]

What's that on the floor next to the engine? I can see it was on the crank in the previous picture.

[Darth Loo-knee]

Its more of a coating than slime Mark and the big ends smelt rather burned when they came off.
As an aside, are the crank journals line bored like the cams?

Yes they are line bored, burning smell is to be expected.

The coating you can see looks very like the sort of thing that slick 50 and similar additives do.

It looks far darker than slick 50 Mark and I think it is stained not sticky but I am going to go and check in about 30 minutes

[Marks DTM Calib]

Do you mean the induction ring for the crank sensor Andy?

Or the bearing cap?

[Andy B]

Do you mean the induction ring for the crank sensor Andy? ......

Ah! That's what it'll be!   
the last engine I stripped down so far had a carb & a dizzy 

[CaptainZok]

Seventh picture you can see the business end of the crank sensor in place looking at the ring.

[Andy B]

Seventh picture you can see the business end of the crank sensor in place looking at the ring.

Easy when you know!  Thanks