Decided to take the Mt Hood Scenic Loop with my girlfriend (pretty much the same drive we took last year with the SVX group, except we went up SR14 and crossed over at Hood River) but since my SVX was down in Albany at my parents house, we decided to take her Corolla (front wheel drive 3AT
) since it gets way better mileage than my truck. Made it up there just fine but on the way back, about 3 miles outside of Sandy on 26 one of the rods decided it was tired of being inside the engine... Funny thing is, it still ran! It started making noise, then it clunked and the noise went away (she thought she picked up a stick or something) then it started losing power so she pulled off. I checked it didn't see anything, decided to see how far we could go.. Got up to the top of the hill and it started making noise again, then made a loud clunk and just started POURING smoke, limped in into Shorty's gas station and sat there for 2 hours until her mom came and got us lol... (They tried to get a tow dolly but all U-Hauls dollies has inoperative lights, go figure) so they came and got us, we ended up taking my truck, got a dolly, drove out there and got it and drove back to Vancouver... So now I need to find a wrecked Corolla (preferably a 5 speed GT-S) to yank the engine out of... Or find someone who wants to buy a good shell (Everything else is in good shape, it has like one dent lol)