major issue need help please people, sorry for the wrong section
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i was thinking same as andy, best way is to take it apart and see what your dealing with. You could only make it worse but trying other oil etc etc

I'd echo the others;

Pull it appart!!!!!!!....................

That thick gunk will never ever get through the small oil galleries of the crank and through a 0.002" clearance of the bearings for it to be of any use, and running the engine knowing that gunk is in the oil galleries will destroy the crank.

20 minuits is fuck all when it come to oil temperature too!!

Accept it, rebuild it, and move on.

ok im going to be better off stipping it to get it clean as the chances of getting the pump and pick up clean is slim. so in the morn the engine will come out.

dont want to spend 2-3 hours trying to clean it when in that time i could have it apart.

13.95 1/4 mile on a 2.95 fd. Carnt be that hard to beat!

For me cant beat comma sonic, there is a bloke at my local autojumble who does it for £16 a gallon, I usually get all that he has.

On 5th Oct, 2014 Shauna said:
What that's crazy, you go commando hahaha! How heavy is your helmet ?

Take lots of pictures when you strip it, then go to halfrauds and say £2k for a new engine please.

Are you saying he won't ask or they won't pay

look at it this way, the monkeys at Halfords know fuck all about cars, shit! they don't even know what they sell in the shop they work in. I'm surprised they still sell oil off the shelf, they don't seem to sell any of the other service items, such as brake fitting kits and fan belts!

Is that not a halfrauds oil filter in the picture?

Halfords by me stocks all service parts on the shelf, i agree with most of them knowing about as much as a 3 year old does about cars though.

cant really see a simple pourable 20/50 oil going totally jellylike ,, unless it was run on caster oil before

.... or some gross contaminant got in there ....

where you parked anywhere near mine and andy/s tents at the pod by any chance ?

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

^^^

Cheers robert. :)

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

and another thread infected!

That halfords classic & comma classic says not suitable for turbo charged engines anyway ( I presume its a turbo) but that aside its a strange thing to happen in my opinion

I'm with robert, , this happened far to quickly, i'd be looking at contamination from somthing that will cause polymerization.

In my opinion dont touch the engine take what you have to Halfords and explain what will need to be done to the engine to rectify this unfortunate situation.

It may take a few weeks to sort out but more than likely they will cough up for a rebuild of your engine.

When the forks on my Carrera mountain bike kept bending they blamed me for riding of curbs but 3 sets later they decided to investigate and found the forks were faulty and eventualy replaced them with a redesigned set. so they do fess up in the end and dont try to sweep stuff under the carpet.

Good luck.

Own the day

well. on the upside, atleast it wont leak everywhere.......

but before you do anything call halfords and get on their case!!!

The only things that could contaminate it is, fuel, antifreeze, any build lube/grease that was used.

If you've got some oil left, you could try mixing it with possible contaminants and see what happens?

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

A good idea in principle but it would have to be done at the right temperature and in the right order if more than one is involved, which it probably is (even in minute concentrations). That makes it very difficult as 1000's of combinations would then be involved.

On 27th Aug, 2011 matty said:
The only things that could contaminate it is, fuel, antifreeze, any build lube/grease that was used.

If you've got some oil left, you could try mixing it with possible contaminants and see what happens?