[V8] major issue today with new v8
toml99 at todomundo.com
toml99 at todomundo.com
Thu Apr 12 19:43:43 PDT 2012
Could they have possibly overfilled the oil? The original manual
say's 10.2 quarts or something like that, but they amended that later
to read 9.5 or so. Maybe he "topped" it off for you. If it's too
full, it gets sucked out that rear breather on the drivers head(only
during hard acceleration/steep hills). I had a jiffylube place
change the oil in Utah on a roadtrip, and it blew enough oil out to
drip out of the cats(no dripping balls of fire in my case), but they
definatly overfilIed it....I run the 5-speed around 9 quarts or to
the fill line on the dipstick....If I add more, it eats it down to
the fill line, then stops eating it. I really hope it's something
this simple Chris, as your probably about ready to give up....
If that injector is stuck open, you should smell gas in your
oil.....Not sure if the injector "buzz" test would help figure that
out or not, and while I've never done it, it's part of the test
sequence. When I parted out the Grey car, I dropped not 1 but 2
small bolts that I could never find......when I cut the exhaust in
half(welded 1 piece with Magnaflo cats/center muffler deleted), they
came rolling out when I went to load it in the truck.....Ha. Good
luck, and keep us posted...Tom
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