Wow, those were some expensive bingo games! But now it looks like you've permanently cut your losses...with that vehicle, anyway.
Sometimes the dipstick won't help. One of my uncles once borrowed a backhoe/loader from another. The oil level was fine until he parked the unit at a fairly steep angle to do some ditch digging. The oil flowed away from the sump and the pickup, starving the oil pump and eventually leading to a thrown rod. That was about 1972, and she's still sitting in the place where she was towed that day.
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Sometimes people just have to be trained right. (My wife and I have been married for 20 years, and we're still training each other.)
Last week I chewed her out for driving around town in four wheel drive on dry pavement for 10 days or so. (She had "assumed" it was in two wheel drive; I had to break down the word "assume" for her.) I found the problem when she said the truck "wasn't running right" and asked me to look at it.
But yesterday, to my astonishment and delight, she called me out to the driveway before she left. She said the oil pressure gauge was reading high, and the coolant temp was reading low. I explained that 60 psi is normal for that engine until it warms up, then it decreases to about 40. And low coolant temp is normal when it's 15 degrees Fahrenheit and the engine's been running for only a minute or so. I also told her good job and thanks for asking.
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