Maybe I shared this already but I had a new 88 chevy stepside with the v6. Took it crawling right off the lot on a local trail, power line right of way. Got to the top of a ridge. Noticed oil pressure gauge bouncing. Looked outside and oil was pouring off the corner of the front air dam. Shut her down, coasted back to a service station, dumped some oil in, took it back to the dealer. Oil cooler line had not been torqued properly at the factory.
It ran for 29k miles before it started pouring white smoke and dropping oil pressure again. It probably had three minutes of IDLING run time on dodgy oil pressure to cause that. Back to the dealer; they dropped a new short block in it under warranty. They said every bearing tolerance in the motor was at the overhaul limit. So that it really all it takes to cook a motor. But it did run for awhile. I think anything losing pressure under load is really on its last legs if it runs at all. On Tue, May 30, 2023, 4:33 PM dan penoff.com via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Why sweat what you don’t know. Get the pan replaced, pour some oil in it, > charge the battery and light it off. I’ll be there’s a better than 50% > chance it will run. Are the cylinders scored? Who cares if it’s running? > > -D > > On May 30, 2023, at 7:25 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: > > Of course the other part of this is if somebody tried to start it while it > was sitting at the auction. From the auction pics the dash was lit of so > battery was not always dead. If somebody out looking at cars tried to start > it, could have caused damage. That is unless there is some sort of starter > lockout if the oil level indicates critical low level. Not sure if that is > a feature or not. Battery in the car does appear to be taking a charge. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 30, 2023, at 6:20 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com<mailto: > curtlud...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > > You never know, we knocked a hole in the Piston Bully last winter and got > away with it. No knocks, plenty of power... > > Curt > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android< > https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_ > > > > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 7:09 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: > I don’t think they even have oil pressure sensors anymore. Looks like they > hit something for sure. You can’t really see it in this pic but the cross > member even has a gash in it. > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com<http://www.okiebenz.com/> > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
