They say My engine is FINISHED!
#1
They say My engine is FINISHED!
I was on the highway on monday, and a couples of minutes after passing a car I start hearing my engine pinging badly, I look down at my oil presure gauge and watch it drop to zero!! So I immediatly turn the engine off and pull over. At this point I'm thinking it's the oil pump bc the engine did not give any type of symptoms before this (the engine has 75k on it). They tow it to the garage and they figure maybe it's the oil filter that's clogged so they change my oil (this is on tuesday). Start the engine and they say it ran perfectly with high oil pressure until the engine got hot and then the pressure dropped to 0. I'm going to tow the car home tonight, does this sound like the engine needs a complete rebuilt?? (it's a '94 LT1)
#2
its intresting that the pressure is fine on startup...
i suggest you make sure your pickup didnt fall off.
could explain the "pining" and the lack of oil pressure..
jack on side of the car up as high as your jack will go and bang adound on the pan...
if you dont hear anything, drain the oil and knock around again
i suggest you make sure your pickup didnt fall off.
could explain the "pining" and the lack of oil pressure..
jack on side of the car up as high as your jack will go and bang adound on the pan...
if you dont hear anything, drain the oil and knock around again
#3
Originally posted by treyZ28
its intresting that the pressure is fine on startup...
i suggest you make sure your pickup didnt fall off.
could explain the "pining" and the lack of oil pressure..
jack on side of the car up as high as your jack will go and bang adound on the pan...
if you dont hear anything, drain the oil and knock around again
its intresting that the pressure is fine on startup...
i suggest you make sure your pickup didnt fall off.
could explain the "pining" and the lack of oil pressure..
jack on side of the car up as high as your jack will go and bang adound on the pan...
if you dont hear anything, drain the oil and knock around again
#4
It might be toast but its hard to say from what info you gave. Your oil pump could be shot, and it could be your sending unit. You say the car runs good when its cool as in no pinging, ticking, and knocking. If you have that much crap in your filter im sure the oil pump screen is looking the same way. It all depends how long you drove it with no oil pressure, and how much friction and damage could have been done. Im sure your lifters will be ticking but many times you can pump them back up( i have used tranny flued many times for this on all types of cars/trucks).
Bill
Bill
#5
http://www.stevensparts.com/images/F...R%20PICKUP.JPG
plugs into the oil pump and sucks up oil...
kind of like the extention on a vac cleaner
plugs into the oil pump and sucks up oil...
kind of like the extention on a vac cleaner
#6
Originally posted by 94SLUG
It might be toast but its hard to say from what info you gave. Your oil pump could be shot, and it could be your sending unit. You say the car runs good when its cool as in no pinging, ticking, and knocking. If you have that much crap in your filter im sure the oil pump screen is looking the same way. It all depends how long you drove it with no oil pressure, and how much friction and damage could have been done. Im sure your lifters will be ticking but many times you can pump them back up( i have used tranny flued many times for this on all types of cars/trucks).
Bill
It might be toast but its hard to say from what info you gave. Your oil pump could be shot, and it could be your sending unit. You say the car runs good when its cool as in no pinging, ticking, and knocking. If you have that much crap in your filter im sure the oil pump screen is looking the same way. It all depends how long you drove it with no oil pressure, and how much friction and damage could have been done. Im sure your lifters will be ticking but many times you can pump them back up( i have used tranny flued many times for this on all types of cars/trucks).
Bill
#10
You all obviusly haven't been reading my recent posts. My 97SS with only 8 grand on the clock pulled the same crap a few sundays ago.
With little warning, it started knocking, loss of power and oil pressure.
Car had never been abused. Now I am 4700.00 poorer and working on breaking in a new short block.
Don't know what happened, and of course, the mech. who did all my work probably wouldn't say if they had screwed something up.
Only thing that I can come up with is maybe when they installed my ported heads recently, they might have over did with the RTV on sealing the intake and maybe the RTV clogged the oil pickup or some damn thing like that.
Guess I will never know. I do understand though.
With little warning, it started knocking, loss of power and oil pressure.
Car had never been abused. Now I am 4700.00 poorer and working on breaking in a new short block.
Don't know what happened, and of course, the mech. who did all my work probably wouldn't say if they had screwed something up.
Only thing that I can come up with is maybe when they installed my ported heads recently, they might have over did with the RTV on sealing the intake and maybe the RTV clogged the oil pickup or some damn thing like that.
Guess I will never know. I do understand though.
#12
$2100.00? I paid 1750.00 for a new lt1, 4-bolt main short block including shipping (which I believe is a VERY good price.
Add new lifters, gaskets, AC recharge, fluids, installing all the stuff from the old block to the new one after pulling the old block and installing the new one.
All in all I believe $4700 is reasonable.
I would still think that even using your old block that with parts and labor you'd be looking at more than 2100. And is that 2100 Canadian? Hell of a deal.
Add new lifters, gaskets, AC recharge, fluids, installing all the stuff from the old block to the new one after pulling the old block and installing the new one.
All in all I believe $4700 is reasonable.
I would still think that even using your old block that with parts and labor you'd be looking at more than 2100. And is that 2100 Canadian? Hell of a deal.
#13