Uno - Crankshaft bearing failure?

[JHatman]

Happened to me on the way to work this morning. Was driving under the toll gate bridge in Durbs and next thing I hear what sounds like someone cutting metal on a lathe coming from the engine and the oil light came on as well. I pulled over immediately and popped the hood and there was smoke coming out of the radiator, smelled like burning oil. Anyway I've had the car towed to a friends garage, they seem to think its a crankshaft bearing but can't say for sure. If so, is it even worthwhile repairing or should I just scrap this car?

 

[HapticSimian]

If you have something dangling from the rear-view mirror and/or a keyring, take them. Get a new car & keys to dangle them from.

 

[Drake2007]

phone around, maybe do an engine swap out if the body is still ok.

 

[Obelix]

bearings are minor - hope its just the bearing....

Its lots of work though. Basically pull whole motor apart

 

[JHatman]

phone around, maybe do an engine swap out if the body is still ok.

Gonna see if someone can just open it up and see whats wrong, can't be more than an hour or so to strip it down I reckon.

bearings are minor - hope its just the bearing....

Its lots of work though. Basically pull whole motor apart

Yeah I hope so too. The smoke coming out of the carbeaurator is what concerns me but my knowledge of car engines is limited. I suppose first things first and get the engined opened up and see what the verdict is after that?

 

[HapticSimian]

As long as the bearing didn't totally disintegrate allowing for the meeting of metal bits that shouldn't, you should be relatively OK. Once the seal on the bearing in question goes, oil gets into all kinds of places it shouldn't. The smoke is understandable.

As long as the motor didn't overheat, which would lead to nasty warped heads and whatnot... The only issue is that you literally pull the engine & rip it apart to get to the bearings.