I was going to work yesterday and my oil pressure light light up. I thought uh oh, and quickly turned the engine off. I checked the oil level there is none in the motor. First thought.. that aint good it burns alotta oil. I walked to the back to get oil to dump in and seen an oil trail. Here my oil pan rusted enough to blow a hole about the size of a golf ball in the bottom of it. Lesson of the day. Check youir oil pan for rust. It cost me a new engine.

 

title says saved my wallet, and the bottom says cost me a new engine, i dont think buying a new engine is light on the wallet, lol

do you mean it almost cost you a new engine

 

Although living in the salt belt can cause oil-pans to rust through from the outside in, most oil-pan rust-throughs are caused by too many short distance trips and too much condensation, rusting through from the inside.

Take a look under the hood some damp dewey morning and see the gallons of water beaded all over the entire engine; then, note that there is about ten times as much of the same condensate moisture on every unsubmerged portion of the INSIDE of the engine; the rears, fronts, transmission, and transfer-case are not immune to this water bath, either.


The only way to evacuate this moisture is to get things hot enough for long enough to literally boil it off and purge it out the vents as steam.



You Western residents don't know just how fortunate you are, not living in the rot belt.

 

The only Dew we see out here in Southern California is Mountain Dew..

So did you save the engine or did you have to replace it?
Sounds like a good infomercial for that Teflon Oil Treatment.

This sounds like a good reason to install an engine heater, coolant and lube oil like we use on standby gensets.

A pump keeps the coolant circulating at 180* 24/7 365 days a year so it can start, synchronize and transfer load within 10 seconds, also a prelube feeds the bearings with warm oil.
Jim

 

Yea i meant It almost cost me a new engine.

 

Yea i saved the engine. That sounds like a good idea. Might have to look itno that.

 

I don't think you would like the cost of plugging in all the time for a heater. I have thought of a preluber oil pump that also runs for a couple min. after shutdown. But seeing how I will never see 300k with any of my cummins, whats the sense.