Re: bearings

[Daniel1312@aol.com]

In a message dated 05/02/07 19:59:50 GMT Standard Time, spritenut@comcast.net 
writes:

Not long after I'd left school I worked as an apprentice welder and panel 
beater.  One day I had to do an oil change on a Ford Granada that been rolled 
or 
something and was now pristine after bodywork, paint etc.  It had the Cologne 
vee-6 2.8L engine in it and I duly drained the oil, left the bonnet up and 
went to get some clean oil.

When I came back with the clean oil the car was gone.  I kind of looked 
around for when in a cloud of dusty shale the other apprentice slid the car 
around 
the corner and skidded to a stop outside the workshop door. I frantically 
waved to him and shouted NO, NO, while he just laughed and revved the engine 
harder and harder.  When he eventually finished laughing and switched the 
engine 
off I explained there was no oil in it.  So after exclaiming his surprise we 
duly filled the engine and said nothing more about it.

Daniel1312


> Just don't run it too long with no oil pan. A series engines don't like 
> that.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Frank