Future issues that may arise from a rolled vechicle engine?

Wow. That was a long title.

Little background. Last July, I rolled my truck(04, 5spd trd), alone, on a forest trail 5 miles from the nearest cell phone reception. Took a while to get a tow truck out there.

She was upside down for eight hours. Engine was cut off within 3 seconds of the roll over. The engine was run from cold-to-starting, and within 15 minutes I had the roll-over... .
She was towed to town, and all fluids were filled which had either leaked through breathers or caps; engine, transmisson, trans case, diffs, brake and pwr steering.

Truck was very well mantained. Bought back the truck from insurance to swap the 5 speed and manual trans-case to my new 04 db cab.

Curious if any issues that the engine may have after taking that abuse? TIA

 

I don't see any potential issues since you refilled the fluids/ waited for them to settle in the proper position after the roll.

 

I'm not driving it.
Just once: after fluids were topped off and intake cleaned of spilled oil in the airbox, (and sawzalling off the roof). That was just to move her to storage.

 

How long ago did you roll it?
I don't think any issues will come up, the most likely issue will be the gas getting old if it sits for to long.

 

It was early July. And I added 5 gal of gas with fuel stabilizer to account for the the added gas and that which was already in the tank.

 

if you drained everything THEN refilled it and cleaned out stuff...be totally fine.

If you just flipped it and topped off stuff..you could have some mixed and matched fluids. Big issue is oil in through the intake and coating it and the valves and combustion chambers. that'll hurt stuff and if oil got all the way into the exhaust it'll plug the cat..or cats if your newer then 97. O2 sensor could read stuff odd too if a lot of oil got through.

 

If oil made it to your airbox you probably wanna clean the MAF as well as all the intake pipes.

 

Thanks for the replies.

I drained and refilled both diffs and trans case. Can't remember if I did the same on the engine. But I remember when I checked it, it didn't register on the dip stick... But It won't be a problem to drain and refill... But pretty sure I already did that.

I wiped out the intake and cleaned the maf.

I remember only topping off the brake rez and power steering fluid.

There was blue smoke coming from the exhuast when I ran it after doing all the fluids and cleaning the intake. Ran it probably 30 minutes to get the soon to be old gas out of the injectors. When I ran it a month later after sitting no blue smoke.

What damage can oil in the intake do? Anyway to remedy it?

 

If you made sure to drain all engine fluids, clean the intake, replace fluids, stuff like that, you should be okay..however, oil can pool inside the actual intake manifold, if you didn't remove and clean the intake manifold, you could be dumping oil into the cylinders...if it runs, then I would be seafoaming it to clear the rest of the mess up...


You say it has been started twice since the roll and no strange sounds coming from engine? It does sounds like from your first mention of startup it ran but not so good?


Then you started it a second time and everything was okay the second running?


Sounds okay to me, if the truck is still drivable, a few road miles couldn't hurt in the discovery process....

 

Yes, correct. Started twice. No unusual noises, just slight blue smoke on the first start.

I had to sawzall the roof off. I took a chance driving it a quarter mile to my storage. It was un-insured, with no front window. Cops 'round here wouldn't take too kindly if they caught me driving it.

My storage it a fairly large lot. Maybe the manager will let me drive it around after hours. But i'll definately look into the seafoam. Cheers.

 

Blue smoke on the first start would not surprise me - oil probably got everywhere and got burnt up on the first start.