I bought a 71 Cheyenne with a 350, very clean truck but consumed some oil and smoked.
I changed the oil, put in Castrol 10w-30, tuned it up. the oil consumption slowly diminished and I drove it a long time.
One night coming home it started a terrible knocking, a knock you could feel, all the symptoms of a spun rod bearing but it still had the same oil pressure.
I limped it home, with the intention of taking it to a friends garage to pull the engine. Started it the next morning, the knock was gone!
Drove it another couple years, it never came back, never found any evidence when I did finally have to go through it.
My assumption was it passed a chunk of carbon off an intake valve.
That truck ended up being stolen. Never saw it again. I'm pretty sure a coworker arranged to have it stolen. He knew I had just gone through the engine and transmission. It was going to be the truck I planned to drive forever, instead it got traded for his 10 minute crack fix.
I did see the back bumper on another truck once, I followed him , he went into a bad part of town, I decided it wasn't worth dying for, and gave it up.
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