Mobil 1 oil weight

[Mike Claire]

Yeah - same story here, except it wasn't a Briggs, it was the Chevy 350 in
my Suburban ('94 with 205K miles).  I changed jobs and have been so busy I
totally forgot to check the oil, and naturally this something my wife's not
concerned with.  Well, when the oil pressure started dropping to 0 and the
idiot light came on she did call me - I'll give her credit for that.

I told her if the pressure is 0 and the truck's running, don't worry about
it (must be the sender, the truck would have already blown if it was REALLY
0, right?)

I forgot about, and then about a month later I was driving it up a hill when
I thought for sure I was being tailgated by a diesel Rabbit (nope).

I checked the oil, no oil.  Just enough to wet the bottom of the stick,
barely.  It smelled real bad and the engine was scorching hot - no oil to
cool the engine.

I dumped 5 quarts of whatever I had laying around and took the thing out and
flogged it - I figured I'd throw a rod or a bearing and that would be the
end of it.

Anyway - oil pressure was fine, it ran quiet as ever.  I suggested that she
stick real close to home for a while.  A couple weeks later we just went
back to using it same was as ever.  That was 2 months ago.



Mike


On 5/1/07, Dave Eaton <Dave.Eaton at clear.net.nz> wrote:
>
> speaking of oil.  last week-end i figured out how to know when a 4-stroke
> briggs & stratton (lawnmower) engine requires more oil.  wait for it to
> seize.  upon discovering this malaise, i proceeded to conduct an emergency
> transfusion (using mobil 1 5w50 of course) and removed a grand total of 1
> tablespoon of old oil!  upon replacement of aforesaid treacle with mobil 1
> and after a prolonged debate with myself about the fate of seals ;-) the
> old
> girl fired right up, better than ever without a trace of smoke.
>
> can't beat low tech...
>
> dave
> '03 rs6
> '04 allroad tdi
>
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