I'd like to drop a new motor in, well not really, I want to see just how far this one really wants to go. But anyway, can't afford one. I'm still trying to pay this thing off!! 6 more payments, do you think I'm upside down?
How/where do I put the mechanical guage on it?
Here's the part I left out of the original post. Don't laugh too hard.
Winter of '08 got really cold her in Feb, like almost 20 below at night for a couple weeks. Was scaring me starting her up in the morning. Went to get a block heater, magnetic type. Found everything is aluminum, the block, the pan, and the tranny. So, smart guy that I am, I put a hot plate under the pan. Well, I apparently put it too close to the pan and too hot. Boiled the oil out of it, but didn't know it until about the 5th day. Driving late at night, oil guage started bouncing and going down. Thought it was all over. Pulled over, checked oil, nothing on the stick but nasty thick goo on the very tip. Unbelievable! Well, I was 200 miles from home, and as always, not enough money. So I filled it up with oil and went home. Guage bounced for 20 minutes or so then started coming up and got back to pretty much normal. But I know I hurt her. Crud and crap all in the oil passages. That makes this story even more unbelieavble, that she came back from that. Did all I could to flush it out with Seafaom and other stuff, after about 3 oil changes it started looking normal when draining oil. But that makes me think I occasionally get a chunk that breaks lose and clogs a passage or the screen.
I would've pulled the pan already but you have to lift the motor to get the pan off, and since it hasn't run poorly or smoked or use any oil, (at all), I've just kept rollin, and hoping. This low pressure started over last winter, little my little. Now even in the summer I have to warm her up. So it's probably clogged screen or something, but maybe not. There's no sludge in the bottom of the pan. I can put a long thin screwdriver into the drain hole and slide it around and nothing comes out, (like it did for the first few oil changed after the boil-down incident). And I can even get the screwdriver up on the pump screen and run across it and I feel all the little ripples of the screen, not like it's all crudded up, but that's not a certainty. I think the Lucas may have been what saved saved me.
The fact that she doesn't smoke, hasn't lost any mileage, and doesn't seem to me to have lost any power from when new, gives me hope that maybe it is just the sending unit.But then again, that boil down may be coming back to haunt me.
Appreciate your input. I know we've disagreed on some OT stuff before, thanks for helping me with this.
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