Help! Engine suddenly quitting!
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Looking down your throttle bores, you are looking into the plenum. (empty space in intake manifold.) The pan at the bottom appears to be covered in burnt oil, with a shiny surface, indicating fresh oil....... Or is that just the pic?
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Harm: Engine will start eating oil wholesale. Destroy cat converter, and O2 sensors. Run it out of oil, and you will blow up the motor.
Cost to repair: Intake gasket set, oil and filter, shorter bolts for the plenum pan. new bolts for the intake itself, and some time, if you do it yourself. Likely 3 to 4 hours labor, at whatever rate, to pay someone else to do it.
Cost to repair: Intake gasket set, oil and filter, shorter bolts for the plenum pan. new bolts for the intake itself, and some time, if you do it yourself. Likely 3 to 4 hours labor, at whatever rate, to pay someone else to do it.
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Ok. It sounds simple enough that to do. I check the oil weekly because it does burn some oil so no fear of the engine running out of oil but I’ll plan to change that gasket and bolts out then when I do the next oil change. As far as the cat, if It wasn’t against the law, I’d just straight pipe all the way back from the hreaders! LOL