wmtunate:

Distance may not have been great, but it matters a lot if you had no oil pressure at all, and if you had the motor revved up and working hard.

How bad was the pan holed, and where?

The bucking and stalling out don't sound good.

A question to you, does your oil pressure warning light work? Should come on, looking like an old-time railroad oil can, in middle of front hood area of pictogram on dash, visible at key on before engine starts. If you don't see that then, it won't come on to warn you if your oil pressure is ever lost while running. The senders fail on these cars, and if you don't see the warning light you can have a good engine go bad.

I know this because my Mom's old '96 CS motor died, after she ran it out of oil from a badly leaking oil pump cover - - the sealing O-ring had cracked in two. No warning light, we then discovered. Hadn't missed it because we didn't ever have a working one, from buying the car, and never knew it. The symptoms that showed up, and persisted after seal fixed and oil back in, were, constant ticking, from the flywheel-end piston that had been starved of oil and caught on in the bore and began scuffing, and an occasional hard stumble - - that same piston, catching on again and again, and almost stalling the car.

What you describe doesn't sound like enough time without oil pressure to cause the above sort of damage, but don't assume.

You pretty much have to pull the motor to change the oil pan, by the way. Could it be a clean hole in a flat area, in which case maybe a patch could be mechanically attached with drilled and tapped holes, and some gasket material between patch plate and oil pan?

If it's the piston, start looking for a good engine, cheap, or a replacement car, I'd advise. Other trouble lurked in mine - - bad balance chain gears, oil pump trouble = = and came on after I had pulled the motor and replaced the piston.

Good luck.

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• Catastrophic oil loss - now ticking noise, wmtunate, Sun, 5 Aug 2012 09:24:55
  • Good: Sticky lifter. Bad: Caught-on piston, RayF, Sun, 5 Aug 2012 18:45:46 <-- Viewing This Message
    • Re: Good: Sticky lifter. Bad: Caught-on piston, wmtunate, Mon, 6 Aug 2012 07:58:02
      • Re: Hmmm that's right near the feeder/strainer..., Street, Tue, 7 Aug 2012 08:32:02
      • Calls for careful diagnosis before any bucks spent., RayF, Mon, 6 Aug 2012 10:59:45
  • now ticking noise, dref, Sun, 5 Aug 2012 12:02:16
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  • Re: Catastrophic oil loss - now ticking noise, wmtunate, Sun, 5 Aug 2012 09:29:39

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