{"id":4546,"date":"2019-10-10T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2019-10-10T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T10:00:16","slug":"throwback-overheated-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/10\/throwback-overheated-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback: Overheated Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s throwback post is a little different than usual. This is a post that I was told I couldn&#8217;t post by the dealership I worked at the time. I no longer work there, so here it is. Originally posted November 12, 2015.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The cooling system is very important for a car\u2019s engine. Combustion chamber temperatures can be over 1000 degrees, and the surrounding parts of the engine are hundreds of degrees. If the temperature isn\u2019t controlled, parts can warp and crack, and ruin the engine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015_11_12_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-148\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015_11_12_01.jpg?w=640&amp;h=480\" alt=\"2015_11_12_01\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-147\"><\/span>This is the engine of a Toyota Corolla with only 8,000 miles on it. One thing you can immediately notice is that the cylinders are filled with coolant. This means that something has caused coolant to leak into the cylinders. This is because the engine ran out of coolant, overheated and damaged the engine, and then was filled with coolant again, but now entered the cylinders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015_11_12_02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-149\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015_11_12_02.jpg?w=640&amp;h=480\" alt=\"2015_11_12_02\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides cracking the cylinder head, the overheating also blew a hole through the walls between three of the cylinders. If that hadn\u2019t happened, the block may have been salvageable, but it\u2019s basically worthless at this point.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of all this was actually a factory problem. Two of the hoses that carry coolant didn\u2019t get their clamps installed at the factory, which allowed coolant to slowly leak out at the connections.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCasCW0ImD3UuLeMu5RAZCXg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Mechanical Malarkey on YouTube!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T-shirts, hats, and stickers<\/a> are available to order!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s throwback post is a little different than usual. This is a post that I was told I couldn&#8217;t post by the dealership I worked at the time. I no longer work there, so here it is. Originally posted November 12, 2015. The cooling system is very important for a car\u2019s engine. Combustion chamber temperatures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,35,42,61,70],"class_list":["post-4546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-damage","tag-engines","tag-heating-cooling","tag-throwback","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}