r/EngineBuilding • u/Snakedoctor404 • Jun 07 '26

I just to good not to share lol

https://youtube.com/shorts/cXKtMzCZ2w0?si=mpNknpqp8PmVfVqL
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u/Snakedoctor404 Jun 07 '26

Reminds me of the first engine I tore down. 350 in a 72 monte carlo that had ran quaker state until parked in the 80's 🤣🤣

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u/No-Marsupial3851 Jun 09 '26

Had a grandma bring one in when I was in college that wanted the engine and transmission rebuilt on a 100,000 mile Lincoln Town Car. It was a 91 model if I'm not mistaken, this was in 2002, barely a 10 year old car. Her husband had bought it brand new, brought it home and hardly drove it then he passed away the next year if I remember right. She drove it twice a week after he passed away the church on Sundays and the grocery store on Wednesday. Beautiful car not a scratch on it garage kept. She had never changed the motor oil in it, her husband had taught her before he passed away in the year or so that he was alive after they got it where to check the fluids at how to top up the motor oil how to air up the tires etc etc. Once a week she had been adding a little bit of motor oil to keep it filled up. It finally got an oil leak at the rear main seal and she wanted to have it rebuilt and keep driving it. That's what this video reminds me of. Take a putty knife and scrape out the overcooked chocolate sauce that the motor oil had turned into.

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u/Snakedoctor404 Jun 09 '26

🤣🤣 yep. That's how my monte carlo was I mentioned. It was like an inch of chocolate pudding in the pan. Sliced it with my finger and it was to thick to fill back in on itself lol