2004 Alfa Romeo Other Alfa GT Engine Failure

ANDYPOWERNET

MEMBER
2004 ALFA ROMEO
60,000 MILES

My Alfa GT has suffered a catastrophic engine failure (con rod) 7k miles after having major engine work carried out. I am currently taking court action against the garage. Their work included cylinder head skim, and a replacement main block. This was all following a coolant pipe failure.

Since the work oil has been appearing in all of the coil pack wells, I believe this is due to a valve cover gasket leak and is ultimately what caused this engine failure. The garages opinion is that I am incorrectly topping up oil, soaking the coil packs and therefore have caused and driven on a misfire which caused the engin to fail.

Can anyone provide me any clarity on this?

Regards

Andrew

1 Reply

HMAC300

MECHANIC
48,601 POSTS

We have no info on these cars. However it wold have to leak a hell of a lot to fill up the plug wells so it sounds like something may have been missing to leak like that. If you drove with a misfire it cold have possibly detonated the pistons which would look really scarred up on the side alongwith maybe some melting on top of pistons going into rings. Also if the conn rod went it may have not been properly torqued allowing the rod and cap to work against each other so they would be polished from where they were working. However you have said it was a main block replaced so was this one with the crank and rods already installed?