My new Marauder! With 18 Qrts of oil in it!?!

fordnut02 said:
guess you have never heard of this happening from kids changing oil in these places , I have seen 3 motors blown from it

just hope he dont have a antifreeze problem
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No, I have heard of it.

It was a joke, newb's first post was that he bought a "gem", previous owner said it "needed work" and then drains out "EIGHTEEN" quarts of oil.

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You would think if it was 18 quarts, that's worth 3 oil changes stacked. With more than 9-10 quarts some seals might start to go and leak or other engine problems might arise.
 
fordnut02 said:
I have seen this before , and seen blown motors from it , quick service oil change places , walmart etc , they dont drain out the old oil , just add the new
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Years ago I narrowly stopped a kid from putting trans fluid in my engine at Jiffy Lube.
 
tbone said:
Years ago I narrowly stopped a kid from putting trans fluid in my engine at Jiffy Lube.
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why I change my own , seen to many problems

had a older man 1 of my customers come in for suspension work, seen his drain plug leaking , it was ready to fall out , had is oil changed day before at Ford dealer lol

He went back to them, they offered him a free oil change :depress:
 
Okay guys update.

This is after removing the filter, and all of the old oil is evacuated. to a grand total of 18 Quarts!!

After draining, i put a new filter and I put 7 quarts of Motocraft in it. (i didnt realize the jug was 5 quarts, which isnt a big deal)

I started it and the whole motor was ticking!
so my guess is he filled and kept filling till the noise went away.

So i grabbed my stethoscope and began to investigate. I fount the rattle/tick to be in front, so i figured its the timing chain.

I had the car at a buddies so i limped it home so i can work on it in my own garage.

First things first. I did a compression check. I got 180psi at every cylinder. GOOD NEWS!
I was hoping to God no oil got passed a ring and bent a rod.

SO i figured i would go ahead and take the front of the motor apart. I got it all apart and found the issue.
The tensioner on the passenger side is deflated and the chain is slopping around somethin nasty.

all the parts are ordered and im waiting to put the thing back together.
 
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There was no antifreeze in the oil, the transmission levels are fine.
The motor ran smooth after i changed the oil it just had the rattle.

The car is actually really clean, only has a few issues. the guy drove the car and neglected it. The door has a ding, and the roof has hail damage.

Surprisingly the motor didnt have any oil dirt on it. It looked like a normal car that has been dailyed nothing out of the ordinary
 
junior said:
Chuck said:
Okay guys update.
First things first. I did a compression check. I got 180psi at every cylinder. GOOD NEWS!
I was hoping to God no oil got passed a ring and bent a rod.
Really???? I'm pretty sure the oil was already on the rod side of the piston.
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Yeah but if it was so overfilled, and if oil got passed a ring on the bottom of its stroke and got into a cylinder, it would hydro lock, bending a rod
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