The Conservative Cave
Interests => Around the House & In the Garage => Topic started by: Chris on December 01, 2009, 03:47:45 PM
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http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1281659
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WTH?
How many miles was on that oil change?
60K? WOW.
Reminder to self. Get oil changed this weekend.
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Ew. So that would be why the boyfriend tells me to check my oil at every fill up and get it changed regularly. "I ain't replacing your engine because you can't maintain your car."
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Yep.
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Someone took that crankcase muddin'! :lmao:
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Reminds me of the 1962 Catalina with a 389 in it that I bought and had sat for a couple of years. Pulled the valve covers and damn near had a stroke. That bad boy took a LOT of cleanin' to get right.
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(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/2382/dsc00851m.jpg)
(http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/1261/dsc00860rvk.jpg)
(http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/86/dsc00862twg.jpg)
(http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/9883/dsc00858w.jpg)
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http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1281659
Holy Shit! :rotf: That's a good way to ruin a good Beemer!
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That's what you get for buying cheap oil........ :rotf:
Hey....That'd be the DUmmie response.
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This sort of reminds me of a bad oversight I made. I had a 91 Plymouth Acclaim. I hadn't checked the oil in it for a couple of months. Anxious to go hunting and a lot sleepy-eyed, I forgot to check it before we took off at 0330. About an hour or so into the trip, an obnoxious clatter started. I stopped at a gas station on the way to the hunting area and the oil didn't even register on the dipstick. (I change the oil in my vehicles every 3000-5000 miles, so I'm usually OK). I added some oil in hopes that it would go away. It didn't. Upon arrival at our hunting place, while walking to my stand, I sprained my ankle badly. I DID get a deer that day. I nurse the vehicle back home that night after hunting. With the sprained ankle and a messed up car, I declined to go the next morning. (Hunting seasons in MN are only two days for the zones I normally hunted). Anyways, I tear into the engine and discovered that I had spun a bearing. I keep that on my dash to remind me about what happens if you don't maintain your vehicle properly. It cost me some $800 in parts and machining to rebuild that engine.
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If you look at that oil where it is congealed in a thin layer, it doesn't look all that dirty. It looks like it simply turned into some kind of paraffin base. Some of the older motor oils originated in the refining process from a tower called the fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU for short). A product from that tower was called gas oil and contained a high paraffin content. This product was sent to another unit where the paraffin was removed with the remaining product converted to motor oil. Under certain chemical or climatic conditions, that motor oil could congeal similar to what the photos look like. Many or most modern motor oils are the result of the recombining of hydrogen atoms into long string molecules which do not congeal under low temps or chemical attack.
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I've heard Penzoil still uses paraffin in their commercial oils, or at least has a high paraffin content. I don't buy the yellow bottle. I've had good luck with Castrol for years.
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Yes, I've been a Castrol fan for years.