bye bye motor
#1
bye bye motor
so my neighbor owns a 2005 4.0 mustang with 175,000 miles and she tells me the car is making a ticking noise , so I told her I would take a look , start the car . omg thats no tick ,its a loud clack ,clack ,clack sound ! I see the oil light is on , so I turn it off and check the oil . its barley reading on the dip stick , I add till full and start again clack,clack,clack !
I hook up the sct and no codes to b found , so I decide to remove valve cover see if I can spot any issues ......this is what I found
I asked, you do change the oil right !! she says oh yes ,I get oil spot to change it every 8000 miles !!! I tell her , you should probably start shopping for a new motor !
I hook up the sct and no codes to b found , so I decide to remove valve cover see if I can spot any issues ......this is what I found
I asked, you do change the oil right !! she says oh yes ,I get oil spot to change it every 8000 miles !!! I tell her , you should probably start shopping for a new motor !
#2
Sheesh... Who's been changing it? You may not know the answers but I sure am curious just for curiosity's sake... How the hell does it sludge up so bad if she is getting it done every 8000 miles... Perhaps wrong viscosity/weight motor oil?
Don
Don
#4
Honestly I'm surprised she managed to make it that many miles being that the engine looks like it's been running for 20 years on bad oil!
While the topic is a dead engine...what do you guys recommend to make sure sludging doesn't occur? Is there anything I should do in addition to running fully synthetic oil and doing 7500-10000 mile oil changes? Or is that really all?
Thanks!
While the topic is a dead engine...what do you guys recommend to make sure sludging doesn't occur? Is there anything I should do in addition to running fully synthetic oil and doing 7500-10000 mile oil changes? Or is that really all?
Thanks!
#5
I'm not sure she was totally honest with me ! when I check the oil , it was barely reading on the dip stick , and the dip stick was sludge and burnt as well . I'm thinking she missed a few
#7
Honestly I'm surprised she managed to make it that many miles being that the engine looks like it's been running for 20 years on bad oil!
While the topic is a dead engine...what do you guys recommend to make sure sludging doesn't occur? Is there anything I should do in addition to running fully synthetic oil and doing 7500-10000 mile oil changes? Or is that really all?
Thanks!
While the topic is a dead engine...what do you guys recommend to make sure sludging doesn't occur? Is there anything I should do in addition to running fully synthetic oil and doing 7500-10000 mile oil changes? Or is that really all?
Thanks!
i forget what brand it is, but has solvents in it.
keeps it a little cleaner than just changing the oil.
and i'm very **** about changing the oil, 3k miles or 6 months whatever comes first. but thats just me.
#8
#9
Either she wasn't getting it changed often enough, or the place she was taking it to wasn't actually changing the oil. Or they were using something like 20/50 weight lol. But that should NOT happen with oil changes every 8k miles.
#10
^^ +1 ...I cant even imagine a build up like this! I doubt that oil ever EVER got changed! Sure she didnt say every 80,000 miles LOL
Last edited by Lifter583; 11-02-2010 at 02:59 PM.