2JZ on its last legs
I’m currently in my final semester in an Automotive program in Ottawa.
This semester, each group was given an engine that was donated by a local dealership due to a manufacturing defect or the engine was replaced with a newer one.
My group ended up getting a 3.0L 2JZ GE.
Obviously it’s well known that Toyota engines are incredibly resilient…however what we later discovered genuinely frightening us.
Within 20 minutes we learned that the throttle body only opens about 15% of the way, coolant has flooded the intake, cylinder bore and exhaust of cylinder 1, there’s metal shavings in the oil pan, and worst of all, we found what appeared to be a conrod bearing loose in the oil pan.
At what point do we take the engine out back and just shoot it Old Yeller style to end its misery?