jeromio Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Driving along to class yesterday. They're tearing up the roads on campus, so it's pretty bumpy. Then, just as I'm almost to my building, BLAM! SMASH! CLUNK! I could hear this thing bouncing off the floor, etc. Looked in my rearview and saw this huge chunk of something bouncing behind me. Few seconds later there's dust in the back hatch area. And a smell. Wait, no, that's not dust, that's smoke. WTF? Hey, oil pressure is zero! What's going on? Now there's lots of smoke. I roll into the parking deck, get out - black trail behind me. I'm gonna have to mount this thing: My car is a bit low. And the pan is a sconch below the engine xmember. But still, I don't expect to encounter boulders on the road. There's oil coating everything under the car now. Now I have to find a pan, suck away a Saturday with R&R. I'm assuming the motor is okay. It ran for maybe 30seconds with basically no oil. I had $6/qt synthetic in there - hopefully there was enough of it still coating the various surfaces during that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gramercyjam Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Funny (or maybe not)! Once I had just finished hot rodding a car and put her in reverse and peeled out a little on a driveway paved with small pebbles. One of those little pebbles shot through the oil pan. What a pain to fix! In my case, I took the pan off and brazed up the hole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 OUCH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1 Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 That really sucks. I hope there's no internal damage to the engine. FWIW, I've seen some run longer than that with no apparent damage. But, it sure didn't help it any. Good luck getting it fixed easily. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheelman Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Might be worth pulling a rod and/or main bearing just to verify there was no damage. You have to pull the pan anyway. Wheelman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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