Well, unfortunately, his car wount make it across country without a rebuild. I do most of the work on his car and know it pretty well. It leaks from the front main seal pretty bad, i mean like 3 quarts a week, And unfortunately hes run the car hard several times with only 2 quarts-1 1/2 quarts of oil, and it burns oil, and whoever had it before him didnt take care of it very well. I mean, when he got it it was running a bit rough so he wanted me to change the plugs for him, and one of them wasnt even screwed in, and the rest were loose as hell and caked in carbon, and the whole front end has been chopped and replaced, and not very professionally done either. He´s only had the car a few months and as of recently its having a lot of problems, so without at least a rebuild the car wont last another year and a half to be able to go on the trip. Oh, and if you do know a lot about them maybe you can support my theory, he just took his car to the shop about a week ago cuz i guess it was missing pretty bad, so after he got it fixed, he came and told me about his car running bad and that he took it to the shop. And he told me that the valve cover gasket was bad, and it was leaking oil into the fourth cylinder, so they replaced it and all his plugs and wires. Well i wasnt really paying any attention at the time, but i later thought about it, and unless his car has some sort of setup ive never seen before, the valve cover gasket couldnt leak oil into the cylinder, maybe down the side of the engine, but definately not into the cylinder. So I´m thinking unless they changed the valve seals and he misunderstood, which i dont really see happening, that they just thoroughly ripped him off.
Im faster than the speed of rice.
[ This message was edited by: Speed_Machine on 04-03-2003 15:55 ]
