Should I DARE? Used TGMO in my beater?
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Originally Posted By: gregk24
How did you get it started?
Upon bitog reccomendation I floored it and cranked perhaps 9 cranking sessions of 3 seconds each. Probably shaved 20k off the rings life and 2 years off the starter life.
How did you get it started?
Upon bitog reccomendation I floored it and cranked perhaps 9 cranking sessions of 3 seconds each. Probably shaved 20k off the rings life and 2 years off the starter life.
Originally Posted By: SumpChump
Originally Posted By: gregk24
How did you get it started?
Upon bitog reccomendation I floored it and cranked perhaps 9 cranking sessions of 3 seconds each. Probably shaved 20k off the rings life and 2 years off the starter life.
It really was that hard to start after such a minor event? Something doesn't sound right. I haven't heard of a flooded car since EFI was introduced.
Originally Posted By: gregk24
How did you get it started?
Upon bitog reccomendation I floored it and cranked perhaps 9 cranking sessions of 3 seconds each. Probably shaved 20k off the rings life and 2 years off the starter life.
It really was that hard to start after such a minor event? Something doesn't sound right. I haven't heard of a flooded car since EFI was introduced.
Originally Posted By: dlayman
Originally Posted By: SumpChump
Originally Posted By: gregk24
How did you get it started?
Upon bitog reccomendation I floored it and cranked perhaps 9 cranking sessions of 3 seconds each. Probably shaved 20k off the rings life and 2 years off the starter life.
It really was that hard to start after such a minor event? Something doesn't sound right. I haven't heard of a flooded car since EFI was introduced.
Yep, flooded bad. Old battery tested perfect but slightly low charge and tested great after a charge. I think wifey cranked it more than I even want to know. She smelt badly of fuel as I cranked it. I'm glad that we didnt smash a rod on the decreased cylinder volume. We'll see... this might just be a 175,000 mile lifer rather than an 275,000 lifer now. lol
Another member had it happen with his 2011 Camry. His eats some oil now. We'll see if this one picks up the habit now at 55k miles after this cranking with gas as a cylinder wall lube.
Originally Posted By: SumpChump
Originally Posted By: gregk24
How did you get it started?
Upon bitog reccomendation I floored it and cranked perhaps 9 cranking sessions of 3 seconds each. Probably shaved 20k off the rings life and 2 years off the starter life.
It really was that hard to start after such a minor event? Something doesn't sound right. I haven't heard of a flooded car since EFI was introduced.
Yep, flooded bad. Old battery tested perfect but slightly low charge and tested great after a charge. I think wifey cranked it more than I even want to know. She smelt badly of fuel as I cranked it. I'm glad that we didnt smash a rod on the decreased cylinder volume. We'll see... this might just be a 175,000 mile lifer rather than an 275,000 lifer now. lol
Another member had it happen with his 2011 Camry. His eats some oil now. We'll see if this one picks up the habit now at 55k miles after this cranking with gas as a cylinder wall lube.
Originally Posted By: SumpChump
Originally Posted By: dlayman
Originally Posted By: SumpChump
Originally Posted By: gregk24
How did you get it started?
Upon bitog reccomendation I floored it and cranked perhaps 9 cranking sessions of 3 seconds each. Probably shaved 20k off the rings life and 2 years off the starter life.
It really was that hard to start after such a minor event? Something doesn't sound right. I haven't heard of a flooded car since EFI was introduced.
Yep, flooded bad. Old battery tested perfect but slightly low charge and tested great after a charge. I think wifey cranked it more than I even want to know. She smelt badly of fuel as I cranked it. I'm glad that we didnt smash a rod on the decreased cylinder volume. We'll see... this might just be a 175,000 mile lifer rather than an 275,000 lifer now. lol
Another member had it happen with his 2011 Camry. His eats some oil now. We'll see if this one picks up the habit now at 55k miles after this cranking with gas as a cylinder wall lube.
Thats odd for such a new car. I had to move my Accord a very short distance in freezing temps recently and it was shut off right after. The following restart took two tries to start but it did start. It's odd that your car got flooded, you would think the computer would prevent this sort of thing from happening.
Originally Posted By: dlayman
Originally Posted By: SumpChump
Originally Posted By: gregk24
How did you get it started?
Upon bitog reccomendation I floored it and cranked perhaps 9 cranking sessions of 3 seconds each. Probably shaved 20k off the rings life and 2 years off the starter life.
It really was that hard to start after such a minor event? Something doesn't sound right. I haven't heard of a flooded car since EFI was introduced.
Yep, flooded bad. Old battery tested perfect but slightly low charge and tested great after a charge. I think wifey cranked it more than I even want to know. She smelt badly of fuel as I cranked it. I'm glad that we didnt smash a rod on the decreased cylinder volume. We'll see... this might just be a 175,000 mile lifer rather than an 275,000 lifer now. lol
Another member had it happen with his 2011 Camry. His eats some oil now. We'll see if this one picks up the habit now at 55k miles after this cranking with gas as a cylinder wall lube.
Thats odd for such a new car. I had to move my Accord a very short distance in freezing temps recently and it was shut off right after. The following restart took two tries to start but it did start. It's odd that your car got flooded, you would think the computer would prevent this sort of thing from happening.
I would not have changed the oil. Just start it up and drive for an hour or so.
Seems like much ado about nothing.
Seems like much ado about nothing.
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Originally Posted By: dlundblad
How do you catch used oil? My oil catch container isn't exactly "clean" (has metal shavings, coolant, gear oil, grease, nuts/ bolts etc.
Well, as you stated...... it's your fault.
Start off with a clean container for catchment, and you'll be light years ahead of the game. Get a paper paint strainer/filter from the local auto paint shop (they give 'em away for free) and that is clean enough to bottle it and let it settle.
*ALL* of my used oil gets re-purposed. I have one old Farmall tractor that doesn't get used enough to warrant "new" oil, so it gets the 15w40 from my other tractor that gets it's oil changed at 100 hrs (about once a year). Even well-used oil today is better than the oil you could buy in 1941 when the tractor was built.
Some "clean" used oil is added to diesel fuel for my older diesel engines that have serious difficulties digesting ULSD fuel.
Some is used as "bar/chain" oil.
Occasionally... I'll do a free oil change on a low-income family owned vehicle that hasn't had an oil change in several years. I'll put in the best "used" oil I have and tell them to come back in a month or two to let it clean the engine up. Why not, since it really has plenty of service life left?
I'll then change it out for new oil.
It sounds like you have a lot of free time on your hands.
Like I said previously, oil is cheap.
Originally Posted By: dlundblad
How do you catch used oil? My oil catch container isn't exactly "clean" (has metal shavings, coolant, gear oil, grease, nuts/ bolts etc.
Well, as you stated...... it's your fault.
Start off with a clean container for catchment, and you'll be light years ahead of the game. Get a paper paint strainer/filter from the local auto paint shop (they give 'em away for free) and that is clean enough to bottle it and let it settle.
*ALL* of my used oil gets re-purposed. I have one old Farmall tractor that doesn't get used enough to warrant "new" oil, so it gets the 15w40 from my other tractor that gets it's oil changed at 100 hrs (about once a year). Even well-used oil today is better than the oil you could buy in 1941 when the tractor was built.
Some "clean" used oil is added to diesel fuel for my older diesel engines that have serious difficulties digesting ULSD fuel.
Some is used as "bar/chain" oil.
Occasionally... I'll do a free oil change on a low-income family owned vehicle that hasn't had an oil change in several years. I'll put in the best "used" oil I have and tell them to come back in a month or two to let it clean the engine up. Why not, since it really has plenty of service life left?
I'll then change it out for new oil.
It sounds like you have a lot of free time on your hands.
Like I said previously, oil is cheap.
If the Camry really was flooded and very difficult to restart after a start/stop in moderately cold weather, then you have other issues involving either the FI or the ignition. The engine should burst to life easily at the temperatures you wrote of and if it didn't then something is wrong.
Look for stored codes and consider this your warning before you have to go and rescue wife and dead Camry from some parking lot on a really cold night.
I'm not sure why you concluded that the Camry was flooded or that the oil is fuel contaminated, but if it really is, don't use it in another engine. Only 2% or so of high RVP winter gas is easily detected in the oil by scent, so the oil may be okay after all and should have been left in the Camry.
The one in your Scion will run for a long time while using oil, just as other Toyotas with the same engine did and will and as did many Saturns.
Just because an engine uses oil doesn't make it not worth giving decent stuff, especially since there's always deal/rebate/clearance oil for as little as a buck a quart available.
Look for stored codes and consider this your warning before you have to go and rescue wife and dead Camry from some parking lot on a really cold night.
I'm not sure why you concluded that the Camry was flooded or that the oil is fuel contaminated, but if it really is, don't use it in another engine. Only 2% or so of high RVP winter gas is easily detected in the oil by scent, so the oil may be okay after all and should have been left in the Camry.
The one in your Scion will run for a long time while using oil, just as other Toyotas with the same engine did and will and as did many Saturns.
Just because an engine uses oil doesn't make it not worth giving decent stuff, especially since there's always deal/rebate/clearance oil for as little as a buck a quart available.
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