Car ran out of oil and conked out, how to revive it?

That's the whole point you're missing.

Cars are CHEAPER than fitted scrapyard engines.

Yes, but you presumably stopped it at that point. Parrot-boy here kept it running until it died.

I think he should start it up again dry. Then rev it until it throws a rod and is _properly_ broken, Maybe _then_ he'll take the hint !

Okay Wayne, you insist on reviving your dead engine. I'll do it for you. £700 labour - you pay for all the parts.

Or I've got exactly the engine you want sat in my garage (would I lie to you), you can have it for £400 and I'll fit it for a further £400.

Unless anyone willing to work for nothing wants to undercut me??

krystnors

Nah, job's yours. Have fun.

Peter

-- "The truth is working in television is not very glamorous at all. I just go home on my own at night and sit alone and eat crisps."

B*****d!!

krystnors

What does your pinking sound like?

:_)

--Nick.

He'll just start asking about glue to stick that lump of iron over the hole in the block though......

Must be my day, I just happen to have some glue in the garage - he can have it for oooh £100. (I'll have to stop being so generous).

krystnors

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It's an annoying rattling noise made by Peter Macmillan tryping.

Hi Guys:

I'm sure you're all enjoying yourselves with this thread, but you may not have noticed the cross-posting to uk.rec.engines.stationary, where it has completely wiped out the 'locals' posts.

If you wouldn't mind, would it be possible to cut the link and just post to uk.rec.cars.maintenance please? it would be much appreciated.

Thanks and regards,

Peter

Oh yeah.

And?

Peter

-- "The truth is working in television is not very glamorous at all. I just go home on my own at night and sit alone and eat crisps."

Don't forget this is cross-posted to uk.rec.engines.stationary Many of us have done just that.

Oyltite - wonderful stuff 8-)

We use wleding torches for engines that move however....:-) Is Oyltite that stuff that looks like Araldite full of iron filings?

Well, sort of. I mean, it was at rather high revs, in top. It started to feel just a little sluggish all of a sudden, the oil light came on almost immediately, so it was a dip the clutch job just in case the whole front end was about to lock up. The moment the clutch went down, the dash lit up, but luckily I managed to coast the half mile or so to some services. As soon as I got out the car I saw what the problem was, it was nicely oiled, so the engine wasn't :(

I guess I must have caught it very quickly going by the amount of damage, although that didn't matter a great deal as I dumped it and fitted another lump anyway instead of trying to get that bloody seal off!

Had an engine throw a rod once when it was full of oil and had good pressure. It ran better than it had before. Even heard of engines with a sheared crank making it home, must admit my one blown crank didn't quite manage that!

What he needs to do is get another engine if he's really that attatched to the car, and weigh in the old one to buy the beers needed to get a mate to fit it...

Well, now he's run it with no oil, I reckon the engine *IS* pretty stationary, and will remain that way for the foreseeable...

Brian.

Must be a good mate then who's fitting it! Isn't the price of scrap metal something like £2 or so per tonne? And an engine weighs a few hundred kilos, right?

Peter

-- "The truth is working in television is not very glamorous at all. I just go home on my own at night and sit alone and eat crisps."

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I got £20 for my old Maestro a few weeks ago.

Blimey, must have gone right up. A year or so ago I towed my mate's old Seat Terra van down the scrappy (the scrap metal place, not the breakers next door - that's the trick!) and he got a couple of quid for it.

Peter

-- "The truth is working in television is not very glamorous at all. I just go home on my own at night and sit alone and eat crisps."

China is a black hole for scrap at the moment, pushing he world price up...

Tom