I thought that when main bearings go bad, pressure drops when you rev the engine. My pressure is at 0, but it goes up to 20-25 pounds when the engine is revved.
2006-12-02
05:11:31
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jeff_is_sexy
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Cars & Transportation
➔ Maintenance & Repairs
There are no bad noises, just a slight ping on acceleration, almost like spark knock. To drive the car home, I bought some Lucas oil stabilizer and dumped about half the bottle in. You're supposed to do the whole bottle, but I didn't want to overfill too badly. That helped the engine maintain about 7 pounds at idle while warm.
The engine operates under ideal oil pressure while it's cold, but as it warms up (before I added the Lucas) it drops to zero at idle, raising only when the RPMs increase.
This whole thing seems fishy to me. It would seem that the car would run badly or not at all with spun bearings, but it runs fine. Like I said, I drove it all the way home (10 miles or so) with the Lucas.
2006-12-02
05:26:55 ·
update #1