Ive already put this on FT but might aswell stick it up here aswell. Well ive wanted to do the 2.0l for a while and now ive blown mine up i thought it would be a good excuse. This is how she was a couple of months ago-
I was on my way back to colege near Kings Lynn (where i was living at the time) from Wigan about a month ago now when the engine started clattering. I pulled over and checked oil etc and all seemed fine, but the noise sounded terminal so i decided to see how far i could get. Well i didnt get very far. A couple of miles later there was an F1 style blow up with clouds of white smoke. So there i was stranded in the middle of nowhere, somewhere between Sleaford and Boston on the A17. I waited 3 hours for the RAC and got taken on a flatbed back to my college where i left in in the car park for a couple of weeks.
I then got this £150 beauty as an early christmas pressie so ive been rattling around in this for now. Its a 1.8 GLS with only 68k miles on it
I got the Fiesta back home to Watford this Saturday by towing it the 130 miles with the Sierra, and i then started work. This is at the very begining, note the oil EVERYWHERE
Then at the end of the day
After getting the engine out i started stripping it just to see what had happened and found some interesting things. Most obvious being this nice hole in the sump-
And all this shit inside
It looks like what ever put the hole in the sump gave the gaurd/pan thing a good whack-
After taking the cover off i could see more crap and the big end cap of no3 was missing, and the part of the con rod i could see looked pretty mangled-
And after a bit of rooting around i found the offending item-
That beleive it or not is the big end. Obviously this doesnt help get the project any further, but was just interseting to find out what had happened
. Ive spent a long time today at it with an easy out but didnt get very far so im on the lookout for one new caliper. Even went to the scrappers today and got a Scorpio cossie one but they are different 
