by wbski007 » Sat Jul 24, 2010 11:09 pm
before condeming the motor I would run the piss out of it for a while and keep my fingers crossed, sounds like it is possable you could be on the rite track with the sluge thing.
here's a little story, I bought a 50 Olds off a old man in 1964 with about 100,000 miles on it and he said he always changed the oil every 2,000 miles but I did notice it did have low oil pressure, in those days there were no idiot lights just about all the cars from the era had machanicle gauges, I owned 50 olds before and I knew what oil pressure that 303 V-8 had, But I bought it anyway as it was a beauty, on the way home I bought some oil and a filter and the next day I jacked her up and dumped the oil and then proceded to take the filter housing down, in those days they didn't have spin ons the filter was a cartarge, well I undid the bolt that held the canister in place and pulled it down but it was hard coming off which was very unusal, usually when you loosned the bolt the canister would practicly fall off and the cartarge would come with it, not this one, to my suprise the filter cartarge was packed solid with sluge in fact you couldn't tell if there was a cartarge even there, I said to myself UT-OH I've been had. Well to late now, so I cleaned the canister out and low and behold there was a filter canister mixed in all the sluge, put in new filter and oil and fired her up, bingo oil needle pegs, tons of oil pressure rite off the bat, woopie I say. Turns out the filter was so clogged oil would't go thru anymore, lucky the bypass worked and the motor still got enough oil to not hurt it, turned out to be a great motor and never used a drop of oil. I called the old man I got it from and asked him why he never changed the filter, and he said he never new it had one, the car he owned before he bought the Olds new in 1950 was a Model A Ford and they didn't have oil filters, holy cow, I had that car for over a year and it was still going strong when I sold it, go figure
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Happy Trails, Wayne