Need Help!!
Need Help!!
driving my 240 home from work the other day and next thing i know my car just dies. i had no power at all. i coasted into a parking lot and turned everything off- popped the hood and pulled my dipstick and it was bone dry.... somehow i lost all my oil. i checked it 2 weeks before and it was fine - i still have oilplug in at bottom. does anyone think i just burned it up??? it wont start anymore but will turn over. Im gettin spark and fuel so its not one of those. im wondering if u just blew the engine. everyone i talked to told me something different - if anyone has any idea what happened please help- does anyone know if it maybe locked up or something?? please help - if worse comes to worse im gunna take it to the dealership to look at - thanks
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I've seized a few motors. If its seized it won't turn over. My advice would be to do a compression test on each cylinder. You don't want anymore then a 5psi difference between cylinders.
You may have snapped a timing chain. Which would allow your motor to turn over but your cams are just gonna sit there. Thus no start. I had this happen to me as well. If your timing chain did snap, then somthing caused your engine to come to a stop suddenly. Could be a main bearing, cam journal, rod bearing or basically anything that spins and req's oil for lube. If your not comfortable working on the engine I'd take it to a shop. But not a dealership. Those Nazi's will gouge you.
I don't think you burned up that much oil. You would have been doing the Spyhunter down the road. Probably a bad leak. Check your seals.
I'm assuming you reserviced the motor again before you try to turn it over.
You may have snapped a timing chain. Which would allow your motor to turn over but your cams are just gonna sit there. Thus no start. I had this happen to me as well. If your timing chain did snap, then somthing caused your engine to come to a stop suddenly. Could be a main bearing, cam journal, rod bearing or basically anything that spins and req's oil for lube. If your not comfortable working on the engine I'd take it to a shop. But not a dealership. Those Nazi's will gouge you.
I don't think you burned up that much oil. You would have been doing the Spyhunter down the road. Probably a bad leak. Check your seals.
I'm assuming you reserviced the motor again before you try to turn it over.
yeah, im going with WD.. you couldnt have burned up that much oil or else you'd have blue coming out of your tail pipe for weeks. check for bad leaks under the car and in other places like, say inside your radiator. is the coolant lookin like a strawberry milkshake? puhaha!! then you got a bad internal leak. things like that ya know? the oil couldnt have just all burnt up in a day like that.