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The funny thing is my car still drives perfectly flawless and doesn't make any noise when load is on the car.
never install a dry filte.r fill it to the top and let it soak in then fill to top again and repeat until it wont take anymore.then spin it oncopper is usually bearings but could also have gold sparkle from copper tec gasket spray used on head gaskets could have wiped bearings on a dry start up or over rich tune (cylinder wash down and oil dilution) or from poor assembly clearances , rough cut on crank thrust surface, or converter taking out thrust bearing did the old oil smell like fuel what converter are you running ?if you have a roller cam with morel lifters , morel doesn't reccomend using 20-50 due to their tight clearances on the lifter components
there is no need to disconnect the wire...just fill the filter and crank it up. Should have oil pressure by the time you look at the gauge.From the sound of it, you bought the wrong car and it went downhill from there.Make sure that whoever rebuilds the engine has built Buicks and understands that they use Buick clearances and not Chevy clearances.You told us before that the o2s were high and blms were high which does not make sense because high blms tell us that the computer is adding fuel to make up for a lean condition while high O2s tell us that the car is rich and should be telling the computer to remove fuel.You say the converter was plugged solid and that would make it run rich.In the end, you are new and don't know anything about the cars in general and you don't know anything about this car in particular or what, or who did what to it. Sounds pretty much like a cluster F to me. Hopefully you will find someone experienced building buicks to do the engine and someone experienced with the cars to straighten out all the other problems with the car before you start driving it.I suspect it would be much cheaper to find a good engine to buy than have this one rebuilt but I guess we shall find out sometime down the line.These cars can be quite reliable to drive but one has to do his part which includes learning how they work and how to know when something is wrong as well as not abusing them beyond their intended limits.
Your o2s and blms are in conflict from what your reported above. Make sure that someone that understands these cars sorts thing out before you take it out after the engine is fixed
Quote from: Steve Wood on August 17 2013, 10:58:22 AMYour o2s and blms are in conflict from what your reported above. Make sure that someone that understands these cars sorts thing out before you take it out after the engine is fixed Steve I offered to go to his house and sort the car out free of charge when he purchased it...but he decided he'd rather struggle. I cranked out another 120 mph pass last nite with this engine I've been beating on for 3 years. Good thing I don't know what I'm doing.