or you can pay me later. Remember that guy? I don't think I'll ever get his voice outta my head now. Why? Some of you might have seen me post about the engine in the missus's 2005 imploding and having to be replaced thanks to a slipped timing chain. Well, I kept the old one ... mostly out of curiosity. This week I finally got around to tearing the head off it to see what damage her failure to do oil changes had wrought. I expected to see dinged and bent valves. Maybe even dinged valve seats. I didn't expect catastrophic failure.

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Who says men don't cry?

 

I didn't expect catastrophic failure

Catastrophic May be a gross understatement!

 

This engine will be heading for recycling soon ... if anyone would like anything off it, a souvenir perhaps ... let me know.

 

My staurn burns enough oil to the point it gets fresh oil all the time lol. I use diesel oil 15 w40 so that I can go 6k miles without an oil change lol and not have to go synthetic . I drive between 500 and 600 miles a week.

 

I did an oil change on the new engine and honestly panicked when I saw how much oil drained out .. easily twice what I've ever seen from this car. I was certain there was a coolant leak filling the oil pan. I do not kid when I say I once got one quart of oil out of the old one. I'm still surprised nobody called the police on me that day. Suffice it to say .. I got vocal. Maybe I only thought I was yelling ... the missus didn't hear me.

 

When I read your title of "you can pay me now", the Fram TV ad popped into my mind immediately. I was a Factory Representative for Fram 1970-1980, and pretty sure that ad ran in the Super Bowl the 1st time in '74. It was a huge hit. That was the good 'ol days, made a ton of money; Nationwise Auto Parts in Ohio was my/and/Fram's largest account. Great memories. Sorry for the short story. I would bet that you did drop a few choice words when you got inside that engine. Only thing I can say about that is WOW! Saw a Pinto engine (in a shop in Pecos, TX, when I was with Fram) that was being torn down, had never had an oil change with 98K miles on it. Talk about black molasses!!!! There is a definite reason for those oil changes. Great show/n/tell pictures of "why" to!
Aron

 

Ya i remember those commercials,went something like.you can pay me a little now or a lot later.

 

that's insane damage! On the other end of the spectrum, I have changed the oil and filter every 2000 miles, and it hardly changes color in that time. The engine is like new. It pays.

 

Ouch.

I wonder whether the point of oil changes has been brought home to her by that mess.

How many miles were on it?

- Eric

 

I took her car to Walmart myself and had it changed this morning. The old engine made roughly 100k miles.

 

I cannot imagine the noise that thing was making just before it went silent

 

Prof,

What kind of engine was that?
2005... what ?

 

2.2 ecotec out of a malibu


that it kept going and only failed because the chain slipped, to me, endorses this engine as one tough little sob.

 

My wife and I don't have separate bank accounts so if one of us f's up it hurts both of us. I always make sure the oil is checked and changed in ALL of our cars in a timely manner. If I left it up to her it just wouldn't get done and I ain't paying for half a new engine. Oil and filter are very cheap compared to an engine.

 

I am with Starfire, I check my wife's car regularly. Every car she had would be like that if I left it to her. All she does is insert key and drive. According to her everything else is up to me and I ain't paying that guy "LATER"


Mike