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Moms '98 Lumina has likely met the end of the road at just past 150k miles.
My Sunbird has been acting up and my Nissan desperately needs front wheel bearings, so I'd borrowed my moms Lumina that they still haven't gotten around to selling since mom got an S10.
It'd been way too long since it had an oil change, so my dad changed it right before we all went to the outer banks for Thanksgiving. I took it from the OBX back up here to Cullowhee.
Noticed a couple days ago the oil light came on. Shut it off, restarted. Noticed it would come on at idle when the motor was hot. Shrugged it off as a worn pump, bad sensor, or something of the sort. Hadn't seen it since.
Today, I was almost back to my place after some errands and noticed what sounded like lifter noise. Didn't go but 100 yards or so before it started shaking and that stupid oil light came back. I shut it off and rolled up into my parking spot. Tried to re-crank, it's hosed - turns over unevenly (as if not all cylinders have compression) and once it tries to run, it's making a bad clacking noise.
Was talking to people in IRC about it, the suggestion of a broken cam was brought up. Entirely possible, fits the symptoms and it's not the first oiling problem the car had - it popped an intake manifold gasket maybe 6-12 months ago.
Not sure what the parents are going to do with it, I'm guessing they'll get rid of it as-is.
My Sunbird has been acting up and my Nissan desperately needs front wheel bearings, so I'd borrowed my moms Lumina that they still haven't gotten around to selling since mom got an S10.
It'd been way too long since it had an oil change, so my dad changed it right before we all went to the outer banks for Thanksgiving. I took it from the OBX back up here to Cullowhee.
Noticed a couple days ago the oil light came on. Shut it off, restarted. Noticed it would come on at idle when the motor was hot. Shrugged it off as a worn pump, bad sensor, or something of the sort. Hadn't seen it since.
Today, I was almost back to my place after some errands and noticed what sounded like lifter noise. Didn't go but 100 yards or so before it started shaking and that stupid oil light came back. I shut it off and rolled up into my parking spot. Tried to re-crank, it's hosed - turns over unevenly (as if not all cylinders have compression) and once it tries to run, it's making a bad clacking noise.
Was talking to people in IRC about it, the suggestion of a broken cam was brought up. Entirely possible, fits the symptoms and it's not the first oiling problem the car had - it popped an intake manifold gasket maybe 6-12 months ago.
Not sure what the parents are going to do with it, I'm guessing they'll get rid of it as-is.
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