Hi all, I have a question for you seasoned lude drivers. I'm normally a nissan or american GM driver and the problem I face my solution works a treat due to the safety built into the ecu's.

Now whilst low on oil, not empty say 2 mm under the low indicator on dip stick, I was 'babying' the car to the shop to get all things needed to preform a full oil change and flush out (as i recently brought it and the previous owner had 15w 40 oil in it and i was using that thinking it was right) just before the shop that sound of 'i have no oil' came, you know the noisy clanging sound, just before the shop engine cut out. Now that sound was pretty bad, I've heard a lot worse in both my old s13 and camaro due to absolutely flogging the hell out of them and blowing an oil seal somewhere (which killed neither of them).

My solution to both those was simple, drain every drop of oil then removing sump(oil pan), pouring flushes through the filler hole in the rocker cover cleaning the gunk in the sump then putting sump back on with fresh gasket, running another flush this time with the rated oil specific for the engine. Worked for both my cars as well as a friends commodore (basically an aussie chevy with a buick 3800 v6).

Being new to hondas, will this work for my 4th gen 94 lude? Or do they spit chips and break con rod ends and bearings too easy? I ask this as I will need to preform said work on the side of a busy freeway and the rated oil 5w 30 flushes, filter etc are freaking expensive over here and wanting to know if I am wasting my time and should just buy new engine.

ALSO, as an add, I found out earler that day the thermostat was cactus as i walked to my carafter visiting hardware store and noticed coolant coming from under my car, lift the bonnet and coolant being forced out of thermostat housing, but fixed that post haste with fresh thermo and new gasket.

sorry about the college type essay here, but wanted to give you guys a full detailed run down, and state the solution i used before has worked on 3 different models of car. just so I can get an accurate answer.

Thanks all

 

If you heard a noisy rattling sound and the engine died, there is a very high chance you spun a bearing, and maybe worse. If it spun a bearing and was ticking, possibly masked by the thicker oil, it could heat the journal and crank up to the point of stressing and cracking the crankshaft in half.

I would suggest adding oil to the proper level, and seeing if the car will start now, and what happens if so. My bet is that it may start and run noisily, and then get worse quickly as it heats up, and then die. Probably a better idea to tow it someplace safe where you can do work, i..e an engine swap.

This is exactly what happened to the original engine in my car, while my wife (g/f at the time) was driving it.

Great time to swap in a japanese H22A engine and get more power out of her!