MMM :/ it has oil or is it something else?

 

Oil in the pan does not count.

 

If the engine is a crudded up as the pjoto in the first post. I can see why it would fail to lube. That stuff needs to come out.....and maybe teardown is the only safe way to get all of it out.....I only read the first couple of pages and the last couple, so it may have been done, but if not....

 

Ya that's disgusting, might need two cans of seafoam but he did say he cleaned it out and dropped the Pam but it seems like there would still be crud built up

 

Practically every time I've seen that much crap and that kind of failure in an engine it was because the owner thought he had a "perpetual oil change" going on, and just kept pouring oil into the thing without ever draining the contaminants out.

Right now that block is a good core -- when it throws a rod, though, it'll be just scrap iron. With that in mind, I'd be jacking up the air cleaner to install a new engine under it.

 

its all crudded up again

 

I think it's time to go buy a good junk yard motor already...

 

That truck looks like it never had an oil change for 30K miles. That is enough to kill an engine.

 

haha. Haven't thought about that since the old Ford was drug off to the scrapper. Oddly the engine still ran fine, but everything else had disintegrated. I always figured the perpetual oil change she got was better than the no oil change she woulda had if there were no leaks. I just made myself sad cause now I wish I woulda kept that 390.

 

if it was my truck i would but my parents dont want that, they just want me to fix it and sell it