worst motors of all time
I had a buddy with a Geo 3cyl. Nothing but problems
This is odd. I keep hearing bad things about the 3 cyl. My uncle has one with 500k running great. Simple engines. Another friend put over a million miles on his Metro, went through 3 engines, delivering for Pizza Hut. He figured out how to do a long block swap in 4 hours without a hoist and got it down to do on his day off.
These are the throttle body injected 1.3L engines. I don't know if they had two different 3 cyl engines or what the fluke may have been, but I know the early Metro/ Suzuki Swifts got good engines when they were set up and maintained right. Super easy to work on. There is practically nothing under those hoods.
Caddy Northstar Starter R&R
100k spark plug change for a reason. When these came out, I decided that I would never own a FWD, in fear of "due maintenance interval component set changes", like having to replace a good water pump or distributor, when doing a timing belt, because they decided to run it off the shared cog belt. Bunch of dealer money grubbing BS. Engineering wallet gouging. Brilliant.
don't you guys remember the 350 chev diesel conversion engine of the early 80s what a piece of **** .
Not a GM guy but heard those diesel 350 bottom ends were bullet proof for building a gas motor!!!
Yes! Absolutely the worst idea for the adaptation of the Olds engine to Chevy, used as a diesel, they are as worthless as the big Ford diesels, BUT... the lower ends were strengthened and do make fantastic short blocks for hotrodding and can usually be had for nothing, because people hate them for their Diesel characteristics.
2.8- V6 Chevy and GM in the s-10 trucks and Blazers. Bad about the block cracking in the cam valley. JUNK!!!
They put those in Jeeps too. I don't know what the hell they were thinking, outfitting those engines in trucks. They do not have enough power. With that being said, and aside from some quality control issues, they can serve long lives in the right vehicle.
Chevettes. Motors worked but that was about all. It's role was taken over by he Neon. Wonder what the next colossal lemon will be...
They were a shared drivetrain between Toyota and GM, like the '80s Novas. Good drivetrains, the cars though...
And the Neon... Tried 2.2/2.4 BOTCHED. If you want a car to overheat, buy a Neon. The radiators and thermostats, as well as the plumbing systems are completely insufficient.
My least favorite engine, at the moment; GM 3100 3.1L V6.
Contrary to the 3.8, which is a fantastic engine, this piece of crap is infamous for warping cylinder heads, has an externally plumbed water pump that buries everything and they are notorious for harmonic balancer/ serpentine pulleys coming apart and shred belts.
The cars they stuff them into, namely W body GM cars (Lumina, Monte, Grand Prix, etc.)
I replaced the battery in the hand me down we're giving to Amy's brother. I counted 24 pieces of hardware, brackets, parts and 4 bulkheads I had to remove, including the washer bottle that has the pump grommeted near the bottom and leaks everywhere (no choice), to get to the battery.
Before my friend bought his A-108 last summer, he had a '98 Grand Prix with the same engine. It's coolant overflow bottle or system had a leak that we couldn't find and it would eat antifreeze. Did a leakdown check, we sealed the engine, after replacing the heads, thermostat and everything else, due to warped heads. It was after/ outside of the radiator cap. I spent over $350 last month, fixing mundane crap on the Lumina. Battery was rubbing on the apron, burned a hole in the side, left Amy stranded at school one day.
I cannot get away from those stupid engines fast enough. I'll be so glad to give that car away this month.