Posted on 03/22/2015 10:32:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Decades ago, a buddy of mine bought a very used Lada for $600CDN. He drove it for 3 years, 120 miles per day, five days a week. The body was Bondo, held together with rust, but it ran well. It came with a full set of tools for any and all repairs. When he sold it, he kept the tool kit and got $750 for the still running car. Not a bad deal.
Synthetic will not do that.
oops. not ohc at all. looks like 24 valve, though. still a performance feature.
I have 80K on my Camry and haven’t change the oil - I pay someone to do it for me.
My B-I-L (RIP) changed oil at every overhaul. He took his Vega in and the garage ask if they could keep it overnight to drain the oil/black crap out.
Then you sold it to me. Added oil at every gas and rest stop. Never a mosquito in sight. Several screamed at us to get the POS off the road but it was all we had. Sold it for $50. and that included the cookie sheet that keep the drivers seat off the asphalt.
Looks a lot like a Chrysler 2.7 from the late 90s/early 00s.
Thanks - guess I could’ve looked at the article to see that it’s a TT engine - but who does that?
If it burns/leaks a quart every week, in a month you have changed your oil. Assuming you added oil to keep it running.
Two things, no three things:
1) First, that’s one hell of an engine that can still operate to get to that condition.
2) Second, was it Synthetic Oil. I doubt it. There have been life tests with Synthetic Oil and they note two things - no sludge and no deterioration of the engine, even after lots of miles. I’m going to look that up again.
3) I have a vehicle with an engine where the manufacturer made a slight change to comply with emissions. Seemed very minor, except that it is now causing engines to sludge-up and die. I checked mine. Spotless - I attribute that to using Mobil 1 (synthetic). It was a combination of luck and being smart on my part. And go to Walmart - Mobil 1 is only slighting higher than the cheap oils.
It must be burning oil then. Eventually, the filter will surrender.
I worked for an engineering manager who had the engine in her Honda seize up after 80,000+ miles. She never had an oil change.
That you Bill?
I knew a guy who bought a used Volvo and drove it until it seized from having no oil.
His comment?
“It had oil in it when I bought it.”
/facepalm
When i was young i worked at a farm, and the frugal (understatement) owner's idea of an oil change was to "let the oil run low, and then full it up." And i am sure the oil was a cheap grade, and the filters rarely got changed. He got by on this as the trucks were old and used a good amount of oil.
However, one of those old truck engines got rebuilt so well that it hardly ever needed any oil, about half a quart a year as i recall, traveling about 30 miles a day making deliveries in the city and back. I knew as it was my job to check it as a helper on the route. But after about a year and a half or so the truck was idling in the lot before making deliveries, and it started to make squeaking noises, which stopped in a few seconds, as the engine was frozen.
The mechanic said that when he pulled the plug on the pan that nothing came out, as it was all sludge. Had it been a good grade of oil it could have lasted much longer.
Then again my own dad had an old Ford station wagon in the late 60's, with a 390 engine which used 2 qts of oil a day (40 miles) but ran like a top (though it was missing second gear). So he bought a barrel of oil for .10 a quart (back then) and every day after he came come from work i did my job as a kid to put the 2 qts in, which was slow in the winter!
“I had one about that time too. Mine was a LS 100, had a fo...”
I also had a 100LS. A great car! You could shut off the engine and it would keep running for about a minute. Then the RPMs would pick up and it would backfire and spit out blue smoke before it finally quit running. I also liked the feature where the brass tube that fed fuel to the cab fell out, great for cleaning the engine!
Like an old diesel locomotive, if you leak enough lube oil and are constantly adding it to the tune of 5-10 gallons a day, you will never need to change the oil... just take a lube oil sample every 92 days to check for engine issues, and change the filters.
My dad used to tell of how he never changed oil. He’d be plowing (with a 1930’s something tractor), a rod would start to knock. He carried the stuff needed, dropped the oil, the pan, took off a rod cap, filed it, put it back together, poured the same oil back in, and went back to work. All out in some dusty dirty field where just about anything could get blown into the engines insides and make grinding compound.
He bought a brand new 1964 Ford with a 292 in it, never changed oil. The engine lasted about 60,000 miles. He repeated that with a new Fairlane, same results.
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