Patman
Staff member
I mentioned this in the fuel dilution thread but it didn't seem to get much attention so I thought I'd post it on it's own here.
Yesterday morning my car (95 LT1 Firebird) would not start, and I made at least two dozen attempts to get it going, it would just crank and crank but would not fire up. Eventually it did fire up, but I'm pretty sure the engine was flooded with gas from all the attempts.
I've never smelled inside my oil filler area before, so I'm not 100% sure but it does smell like raw fuel in there right now.
I'm wondering if anyone else has ever done this and then gotten a UOA on it to see how much fuel ended up in the oil.
I'd hate to end my GC interval so soon, I'm only 2500km into it right now and had planned to go 10,000km.
Do you guys think I would eventually end up burning off most of this fuel in the oil due to my long trip to work and back each day? (it's a 25 mile drive, but with rush hour it takes close to an hour each way lately)
So should I still take this interval out to 10,000km as originally planned, or cut it in half to 5000km? Or change it now at 2500km?
PS-I'm running GC 0w30 and an expensive K&N oil filter, so it's not really cheap stuff I'd be getting rid of.
[ April 14, 2004, 10:14 AM: Message edited by: Patman ]
Yesterday morning my car (95 LT1 Firebird) would not start, and I made at least two dozen attempts to get it going, it would just crank and crank but would not fire up. Eventually it did fire up, but I'm pretty sure the engine was flooded with gas from all the attempts.
I've never smelled inside my oil filler area before, so I'm not 100% sure but it does smell like raw fuel in there right now.
I'm wondering if anyone else has ever done this and then gotten a UOA on it to see how much fuel ended up in the oil.
I'd hate to end my GC interval so soon, I'm only 2500km into it right now and had planned to go 10,000km.
Do you guys think I would eventually end up burning off most of this fuel in the oil due to my long trip to work and back each day? (it's a 25 mile drive, but with rush hour it takes close to an hour each way lately)
So should I still take this interval out to 10,000km as originally planned, or cut it in half to 5000km? Or change it now at 2500km?
PS-I'm running GC 0w30 and an expensive K&N oil filter, so it's not really cheap stuff I'd be getting rid of.
[ April 14, 2004, 10:14 AM: Message edited by: Patman ]