Engine tick

[BigChevy80]

Originally Posted by kdr358

so were going the easy way.. junkyard.

That van's not even 10 years old. Why on EARTH would you junk it???

Sorry but you hit a soft spot. Many times I've been to the scrapyard dropping off some scrap steel when I see someone come rolling in with a car that would be perfectly suitable to drive with a little TLC, only to send it into the scrapyard to be crushed. Most of them tell me "it's over ten years old and has like 120,000 miles on it!"

I'm sorry... in what parallel universe is 120,000 miles considered HIGH MILEAGE??? I don't consider any car to have high mileage until it ticks over 200,000. It just pisses me off to see these people crushing perfectly decent cars only to go buy some plastic piece of crap that was made in Japan.

[jonmark1985]

Originally Posted by BigChevy80

If your engine is so worn out that you have to run 20w50 in it, then OF COURSE thick oil isn't going to cause problems!! Unless you have an extremely worn engine that you just want to keep running as long as you can, there's NO earthly reason to use 20w50, or even 15w40, unless of course you have a diesel.

As far a clicking lifters go, I don't know about any damage being done. I've driven cars with clicking lifters over 100,000 miles without issue. The older Oldsmobile engines were notorious for doing it. I've also had a few Ford and Chevy V8's that did it. You can try running the valves or dumping a quart of ATF in the crankcase to try and free them up if they are sticky. I just get used to it since it generally doesn't affect the way the engine runs.

Actually the motor is in pretty poor shape in my thunderbird, check my threads and I elaborate a little on it. But yeah, it sounds like the main bearings on my paticular car, I got heavy thump on initial start-up and around 1500-4000 rpm I have a healthy knock. Basically I'm just trying to keep the car going as long as I can.

[RacerHog]

John...Dump some 15W40 or 20W50 in it....See if that dont make her live a little longer.....Then you and go take her out and build a good H.O. Motor for her......YA H.O. /////Love those Super Chickens..........


Big.....IF we all only had yard big enough.........We could save them all....

[BigChevy80]

Originally Posted by jonmark1985

Actually the motor is in pretty poor shape in my thunderbird, check my threads and I elaborate a little on it. But yeah, it sounds like the main bearings on my paticular car, I got heavy thump on initial start-up and around 1500-4000 rpm I have a healthy knock. Basically I'm just trying to keep the car going as long as I can.

I did that with a 350 rocket in a '79 Olds Delta-88. The rod and main bearings were so worn out that the oil light would come on at a stoplight, even with 20w50 oil in it. You could hear the rod bearings hammering at high RPM's. That old motor ran like that for almost 15,000 miles before I sold it to some gangsta' from Chicago a couple months ago. He's probably still driving it...

[kdr358]

Ok, I looked up how much work the van had gotted done in the past and if it saw an oil change every 10,000 it was lucky the trans was starting to go. Also it was nevr maintained and on top of that it was our tow mule we have a 10 ft cargo trailer with about 2,500 lbs in it plus the junk in the van it was rusting out everywhere the paint was chipped/ gone the passenger door wouldnt stay closed unless it was locked, it needed shocks tires brakes more then likely a trans down the road in a couple of months it was cheaper for us to junk it then to fix it.