Posted by Goose on December 25, 2012 at 06:48:05 from (70.198.1.148):
In Reply to: A tractor Story posted by RBnSC on December 25, 2012 at 05:52:21:
This isn't about a tractor, but basically the same thing happened with a car.
When I was a salesman for a GM dealer, we traded for a pristine Chevy Caprice. Only after we traded for it, we found it fouled the #8 spark plug badly and repeatedly. The Service Department thought at might be a bad intake gasket so they changed that with no improvement.
It got parked on the back of the used car lot and ignored for a couple weeks when I asked the Sales Manager just for the heck of it how much he would sell it to me for.
He replied, "How about $100, just to get it out of my sight?" I told him he had a deal.
I took it out to my shop and pulled the valve covers. There was so much sludge on top of the cylinder heads, the drain down hole was plugged on the back of the right head. Oil had been piling up around the #8 intake valve.
I opened the hole and cleaned up the heads and that stopped the plug fouling, but the car still only got a couple hundred miles to a quart of oil. I built up a fresh 305 engine, and figured when I had time I'd swap engines. Meanwhile, my wife began driving it to work, 20 miles of open road each way. In about a month, the thing quit using oil entirely.
The old geezer who had owned it had just putted around town, and the engine was so sooted up and gummed up it just needed a few thousand miles of open road to clean itself out.
I sold the 305 I'd built for a profit, and my wife and I put 50,000 miles on the car and sold it for a nice profit. The Sales Manager never mentioned it again, and I never volunteered anything.
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