Gives me a chance to get under the car and see the overall condition - what's leaking, what's starting to seep, new mystery scrapes or dents on the bottom side. I also examine the oil and see if it looks like oil or sludge and check it for metal.
Occasionally I send it off to Blackstone labs to see what I am dealing with. Twice they have alerted me to coolant in the oil that I had missed - both times with GM V6 engines that had blown intake manifold gaskets. Another time I had a massive amount of metal & junk in the oil from Ford 351W engine. I was ready to dump the pickup thinking the engine was tearing itself apart on the inside - their analysis showed the material was most likely the timing gear failing. Turned out they were right - I replaced the original nylon coated timing gears, timing chain, and water pump - the engine only had about 100k miles on it and went on for another 50K before I traded it. As bad as the oil looked I was ready to dump that truck and would have taken a beating to get rid of it thinking it was needing a $3000 engine instead of $175 in parts and a couple hours of my time.
Most shops don't look at the oil that comes out - it usually drains right into the catch pan with the oil from 10 other cars. You could have a massive issue developing and they won't know until the check engine light goes on.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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