A Sad Ride Home

[rapieper at yahoo.com (Ron Pieper)]

--- Rhett Farnum <rocco_crossing@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I popped it and found the engine smoking from 
> about every possible place. I opened the oil cap to find nothing but a cloud 
> of smoke also. So we proceded to the event with the Cutlass as I needed to 
> get there to set up the course.
> 
> So today after class I met a buddy at his work and went and got a U-Haul 
> cart and totted it back to the garage. I think I will be rebuilding this 
> winter. THE ENGINE IS NOT SIEZED. 

FWIW, I had an oil filter blow up on a Mitsubishi van I borrowed from my sister.  I drove about 2
miles before it pumped all the oil out and stalled. Immediately afterwards, it wouldn't turn over,
probably too hot, but after a tow to the garage, the mechanic refilled the oil and it fired right
up.  Oil pressure was good, and no apparent damage.  SO, you may have gotten lucky...  (long term
on that van is not known, they traded it in the next day).

Ron

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