Engine was bone dry after 4 days!!
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Engine was bone dry after 4 days!!
Hey everyone.. I posted a recent thread about my low oil pressure. Well today i went out there and looked... my truck was bone dry on oil. I had the oil changed on Friday.. put 10w30 Full Syntec royal purple in it.. and drove about 600 miles. Come tuesday my engine has no oil pressure and the engine started knocking. I looked on the dip stick and there was NO oil. My truck is a 2005 dodge ram 1500 4x4 SLT. I never noticed any smoke from the tailpipe nor any other problems. I did notice a very small leak of oil where i park, but nothing that would cause me to lose 7 quarts in just 4 days and going 600 miles. Anyone know what can lead to this?
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Hey everyone.. I posted a recent thread about my low oil pressure. Well today i went out there and looked... my truck was bone dry on oil. I had the oil changed on Friday.. put 10w30 Full Syntec royal purple in it.. and drove about 600 miles. Come tuesday my engine has no oil pressure and the engine started knocking. I looked on the dip stick and there was NO oil. My truck is a 2005 dodge ram 1500 4x4 SLT. I never noticed any smoke from the tailpipe nor any other problems. I did notice a very small leak of oil where i park, but nothing that would cause me to lose 7 quarts in just 4 days and going 600 miles. Anyone know what can lead to this?
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Yea, that's what I was gonna say. Like in 600 miles you wouldn't pick up all the dirt, so look at the filter. If that leaked, there would be oil all over that. If you did lose it driving, yea, the underside might have just a tad bit of oil on it.
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just because there's no oil on the dipstick doesn't mean your bone dry. You can be just under the dipstick and only be 1-1/2qts low. Maybe you watched the guy pour in only 6qts and you burned 1/2qt? I would get under there and see what the deal is. If they did something wrong, you can make them replace what ever they fudged up!
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park the truck now......
get a ride to any auto parts/walmart buy a drain pan. if you own any tools find the appropriate size and remove your drain plug, then over your shiny new drain pan...... see how much oil if any drains out, oil is cheap even at 8-10 bucks a quart. and if you use a new pan and you really wanna you could just pour the oil back in.
if you have a real knock and there is no oil your engine is toast.
if you lost your oil due to a leak it would look like the exxon valdez was in your driveway, and the bottom of your truck would be permanently rust prooffed.
get a ride to any auto parts/walmart buy a drain pan. if you own any tools find the appropriate size and remove your drain plug, then over your shiny new drain pan...... see how much oil if any drains out, oil is cheap even at 8-10 bucks a quart. and if you use a new pan and you really wanna you could just pour the oil back in.
if you have a real knock and there is no oil your engine is toast.
if you lost your oil due to a leak it would look like the exxon valdez was in your driveway, and the bottom of your truck would be permanently rust prooffed.
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