ANY machine can be a smoke machine, if you operate it wrong enough!
GM 2.4 under valve cover picture - lots of heavy varnish
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Wow that is nothing, I guess not many here worked on cars etc. from the 50's.
My Grandfather owned a fuel delivery business with gasoline powered trucks and told me that from the 50's back, stuck ring packs were almost always the death of an engine. When the ring packs would stick, they would start using copious amounts of oil and the end was near. He almost never made it to 100,000 miles on a truck back then.
So even following the maintenance schedule and doing all you can there is no way to avoid this?
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I would argue that before fuel injection, or even the early years of fuel injection, we were seeing engines that looked this bad on a daily basis. It was normal. And it was also normal that most were considered “done” a little past 100,000 miles. Those are my memories of working on cars in the 80’s.
And as much as we complain about cars/engines today, they’ve come a long long way.
True, but that's not a car from the 50's, it's a neglected car by today's standards.
On some engines, yeah. But it isn't common. Remember the BMW's from 10 years ago with the ~15k service schedules?
That makes sense. And yes I do remember that, they bumped the intervals down.
I guess I will just use name brand quality oils, stick to 5K ish mile drain intervals and hope for the best
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