I'm going to have to stop doing things on autopilot.
The weather was nice last weekend so I decided to play musical cars Friday night so I could drive Darwin over the weekend. When I entered the garage I saw a small oily puddle right under the left exhaust pipe, but I was tired and my brain must have been disengaged. When I tried to start the engine, it REALLY didn't want to turn over. If I was thinking, I would have opened the hood and checked the oil, but I eventually got her to crank over and assumed the trouble was just from sitting in the garage for too long. I drove the car around the block, moved my daily driver up the driveway and restarted Darwin and parked her at the foot of the drive.
The next morning, I climbed in to go out and the engine wouldn't turn over, the starter was struggling but no rotation. I finally checked the oil and found a little dab of it at the tip of the dipstick.
I was in such a hurry to check the oil that I locked my keys in the car, so I had to prevail on a friend to help call a locksmith, once inside the house, I called a tow truck to get the car over to the garage to see how bad the damage is. I'm betting that the 4.3 is toast, but a second opinion wouldn't hurt.
This gives me the perfect excuse to try that 305 swap I've been dreaming about, unfortunately my employer is shutting down by the end of next year and I'll need to find a new job before I can afford to play with my toys again.
Any idea how I got oil into my exhaust???
The weather was nice last weekend so I decided to play musical cars Friday night so I could drive Darwin over the weekend. When I entered the garage I saw a small oily puddle right under the left exhaust pipe, but I was tired and my brain must have been disengaged. When I tried to start the engine, it REALLY didn't want to turn over. If I was thinking, I would have opened the hood and checked the oil, but I eventually got her to crank over and assumed the trouble was just from sitting in the garage for too long. I drove the car around the block, moved my daily driver up the driveway and restarted Darwin and parked her at the foot of the drive.
The next morning, I climbed in to go out and the engine wouldn't turn over, the starter was struggling but no rotation. I finally checked the oil and found a little dab of it at the tip of the dipstick.
I was in such a hurry to check the oil that I locked my keys in the car, so I had to prevail on a friend to help call a locksmith, once inside the house, I called a tow truck to get the car over to the garage to see how bad the damage is. I'm betting that the 4.3 is toast, but a second opinion wouldn't hurt.
This gives me the perfect excuse to try that 305 swap I've been dreaming about, unfortunately my employer is shutting down by the end of next year and I'll need to find a new job before I can afford to play with my toys again.
Any idea how I got oil into my exhaust???