Lost my 83
 

After years and years of fun together, my SD bit the dust. She was sitting for a year while I endured yet another deployment and then sat for another on my retirement as I relocated. Asked her to make it the 800 miles to the new location and she apparently puked out all her oil and locked up (not entirely sure as I was not driving). Was only one exit from her new home. Now I have to fine another motor. Sad, sad days.

Oil cooler hose?

I had that happen to me. God is good or I'd been cruising down the highway. It was sitting in the drive warming up while I was talking to a hot neighbor. When I turn to make sure the car was ok I saw the oil dripping.

I rushed over and shut the engine down. Oil hose cut by PS pulley after engine mount collapsed.

I have the new (7 yr old) hoses off and have replaced the rubber with SS braided line which is lined with teflon. The oil filter housing is off the replace the gasket there and I have polyurethane filled mounts to go on so the hoses will last this time.

Engine swap should be considered maintenance when you get as many miles as these cars. Take the new engine down to the long block and install new gaskets before installing. El-Ring has a gasket kit with all you need for not much. Buy OE oil filter housing gasket.

Perhaps tweak the trans while it is out. You can change filter, put new seals in likely leak places, install shift kit as appropriate. Deal with oil cooler lines and trans cooler lines. Such an opportunity.

Congrats on retiring. Now you can work on the car and get it finished.

Either the turbo return line seal went or the rear main. Hard to say at this time. The back was covered in oil. Wish I was driving her as I might have saved her before the big bang.

So who has a spare motor laying around? Perhaps something with a stick?

Where are you?

Dude the same thing happened to me exactly to a tee. Luckily I was on the freeway, saw the oil light come on, pulled over right away, and preserved the engine. I replaced the motor mount, shock, and the upper oil cooler line with new parts. Maybe I should reinforce the line with stainless steel braided mesh specifically for engine hoses and lines. If they even make such a thing. Kind of like exhaust headers wrap only for oil and water and refrigerant lines instead.

Central Florida

Even that's no guarantee - I bought a spare engine/transmission from a friend who pulled it from the local JY. He bought it for a project which did not materialize. I gave him $400 for it with one condition - that's it ran. It started right up ran good so I put it in the garage for when I needed it. Later, I pulled the injectors and prechambers and found that a couple had no prechambers balls - they had burned up and spewed molten metal into the cylinders damaging the pistons and head. The engine was junk. So there is always risk - mostly small, but still risk.

But for $400 I got a good transmission (been in the car for 75k miles), a good starter, injection pump, turbo, vacuum pump, manifolds, oil filter housing, monovalve etc. ....so no harm, no foul