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You want to look at the main and big end bearings
Posted by David Ingram (more from David Ingram) on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:15:35
In Reply to: Re: Took on a project, looking for opinions, Don [Profile/Gallery]
, Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:12:02
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Those are the items that will determine whether the engine is beyond redemption. As a practical matter, it probably is. But there's no law that says you can't drive it with a flickering oil light for however much longer it lasts.
The other thing to check is the oil pump, which is probably worn and maybe the main reason the oil pressure is low.
From the pics, it looks to me like this engine's had the sludge cleaned out sometime in the past, although how recently is impossible to tell.
Given the miles on the car and what it'll cost you in time to re-engine, I hope you paid like $500 for the car and can pay about the same for an engine, or I'd advise to button it back up and drive it into the ground (if you trust it enough to do so, which is tough to say).
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Posts in this Thread:
- Took on a project, looking for opinions, Don , Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:07:19
- Re: Took on a project, looking for opinions, Don , Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:54:11
- Re: Took on a project, looking for opinions, Joe , Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:36:01
- Re: Took on a project, looking for opinions, dtech, Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:29:08
- Re: Took on a project, looking for opinions, Don , Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:12:02
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