Oil Catch Can, Eliminate that knock!

It's not legal do this, in all states.

 

I've been known to touch a suspected coolant leak to my tongue to confirm many a time. I just spit, rinse, and spit some more. A taste of residue does nothing...I'm not doing shots of it lol

I may have to take the cooler to the diy car wash and give it a good blast to help it along.

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Just for the record: it’s not even legal to do a closed oil catch can, one that delivers to the intake manifold. But that is pig headed regs, probably better for the environment.

 

Finally pulled the head. None of the pistons nor valves look like they've been steam cleaned although #3 the valves and head are wet. This was definitely caught really early. I just changed the oil last month and it wasn't milky in the least. It is now, so this was definitely a recent onset.

Has anyone pulled pistons at this point to replace the rings? I'm thinking about it.

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I think you have to split the engine before you can reach the crank.

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Glad you caught it early! The head is probably fine.
Make sure you replace the valve guide seals....

To remove the piston, you have to remove the oil pan.
To remove the oil pan, you need to remove the engine.
Since the head is removed, it should be too much harder to remove the block.

 

I hadn't looked too closely under the car to see if the pan can drop with the block in the vehicle, but I've replaced both rods and mains as well as rings with the block still in the car on more than one vehicle

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You were able to remove the oil pan on the Gen3 engine?
From what I read, to access some of the bolts you have to pull the engine.

 

No, not a gen 3 prius...multiple other vehicles. I've only owned this since July and haven't had the godforsaken splash guard off to see if the oil pan is large enough to be able to get to everything from the bottom.

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There's an upper oil pan and lower oil pan. Both block access to the crank.

engine parts diagram

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Pretty sure @mjoo is right; there’s a split line halfway down the block. You don’t touch the oil pan; just separate the two halves of the block.

I’m totally an armchair mechanic, but pretty sure on this lol.

 

You sent an article about Toyota's instructions for replacing the pistons and rings.
In it it said to remove the engine. Looking at it, it seemed you could NOT get the oil pan,
or the lower part of the block removed with the engine IN the car.

For most car engines that I've worked on all you have to do is pull the oil pan and you can get
to the rod bolts. But according to the article you sent, you cannot do that on the Gen3 Prius engine.

Since I haven't done this, I do not know....

 

Good to know fellas. I've got the Beck/Arnley head gasket set and bolts on the way.

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Gasket pics

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If I'm not mistaken cyl 4 is towards bottom of pic? Between 3 and 4 looks most washed out?

 

Might want to consider an OEM Toyota filter kit. If you look online, I think you'll find it's not much more expensive if at all. I'm not sure I'd want all the work that's going into this to be riding on the quality of Beck/Arnley parts.

 

Part numbers in attachment. Screen grab:

 

Damn, already ordered from RA late last night maybe I can still cancel.

They're that bad?

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Take a wire brush to it, then spray both sides with that "flex tape" spray and you'll be fine!