help car barely runs...

[3.4cutlasssupreme]

my 3.4 v6 is barely starting, and when it does it is clicking like crazy(sounds liek popcorn popping) and i would like to know what it is, it was running a few days ago when my dad was driving it and it ran fine now this, i have been told it could be an oil leak from a plug where a distributor should go into the block because when i put in more oil it seems to die down and then come back later

[gpse3400]

Do you have an oil pressure gauge and if so what does it read? I'm not too hopeful....

[toms92gp]

Check and make sure you don't have spark plug bown out. Thats the closest sound to popcorn poping that I can think of. If some one put plugs in with the heads hot at sometime or another it's easy to destroy the threads.

[3.4cutlasssupreme]

well thanks for the ideas but its too late, this morning it shot a rod through the block on the way to school

[series8217]

Ouch, that sucks..
Sounds like an oil pressure gauge and watching your oil levels should be on your list of things to do when you get another car!

[3.4cutlasssupreme]

yeah what is weird too is that the oil pressure gauge said it was fine all the gauges were fine, and then all that happened