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Originally Posted by tangofox007
Help me understand. You don't believe in oil changes, but you thought it was a good idea to rebuild an engine that was "running just fine."
Where's the logic?
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Here's the "rest of the story" - I bought a 1970 Impala 4 door, light green with light green/tan interior. I bought it from the estate of an ex-flight instructor. I got for something like 500 bucks. It had about 30,000 on the clock. It was a straight car, but butt ugly. It was my beater. I never intended to keep it long, but did. I never changed anything that didn't break. I practiced the run-to-failure regimine of PM. As it pertains to oil, I generally did not add until the oil pressure got so low, that the light came on. That's when I stopped at the closest cheap store to buy two quarts of whatever cheap oil they add, or for that matter, whatever oil they had.
I sold the car to a buddy after it hit about 175,000. He took it and raced it at Raceway Park (asphalt 1/4 mile circle) for two seasons, and never changed the oil either - keeping with the spirit of the thing. The car was junk by then. He pulled the engine and asked me to rebuild it for his "new" sportsman car.
The Nissan was still running great when I gave it to a neighbor - the trans let go driving over the Bay Bridge from Anapolis to Kent island, where I lived. I had to drive in first gear the entire way - people were pizzed at me! It went much faster back down toward the island.