Ran f150 for awhile with little or no oil. Engine is ruff upon acceleration. also engine light came on. Is engine ruined or will a tune up and oil change work?
2007-02-19 15:33:01 · 8 answers · asked by shawn c 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
It does depend on how long you ran it with little or no oil. You may have taken the bearings out. But if you're lucky yoou may have stretched the timing chain from the lack of oil. This will cause roughness on acceleration. If you are doing the work yoursel consider dropping the oil pan and see if there is any play in the bearings ( i mean very lil play in the bearings). If the connecting rods have a lil play you didn't completely run it out of oil. I would also recommend getting a manual oil pressure gauge. It will save your motor and better then an oil light. When a oil light comes on it usually means the worst.
I had a chev half ton with a 350 and ran it on 2 liters of oil and had no problems engine wise.
2007-02-19 15:53:44 · answer #1 · answered by Rod R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you put more oil in it to fill the crankcase to max level after this has happened? If your F150 has an oil gauge if there are oil pressure problems you might see very low oil pressure on the gauge and if it is twitching back and forth it might indicate a problem with bearing tolerances in the engine.
2007-02-19 16:37:10 · answer #2 · answered by Timer2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've undoubtedly ruined the engine. Don't you check oil pressure when you start the thing? After paying seven thousand dollars for a new engine, I bet you will from now on!
2007-02-19 15:39:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try doing an oil filter and oil change, but switch to completely synthetic oil. This stuff is very good at smoothing out minor rough spots. And if you had been using it to begin with, it would have provided a "coating" in your engine, that would have protected it from just this happening.
http://www.cajun-oil.com/engine_life/engine_life.htm
2007-02-19 15:46:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anastasia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most likely yes, but I would run a compression test on all cylinders and see if they are still holding pressure. If the engine is hurt, it will take a rebuild and a couple of bucks to boot.
2007-02-19 15:42:39 · answer #5 · answered by Fordman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on how long engine ran with little or no oil. Is it knocking?
2007-02-19 15:39:36 · answer #6 · answered by jbhunter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go and buy another vehicle .... your f150 will never be the same ,,, unless you really love the f150 --------------- and then it is time to buy another engine ... a short block is not cheap but it will give you about 10 years of life to the truck .........
2007-02-19 15:48:43 · answer #7 · answered by XTX 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep. It's ruined. And it's a Ford, too? Poor thing.
2007-02-19 15:46:14 · answer #8 · answered by Duh!!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋