I sent BKM a PM. Thanks for your willingness to help!! BKM. The picture on the right that shows the varnished (golden color look) on the piston rings (from the second link that that was shared regarding the 306 oil) looks an awful lot like the golden chips in my oil- in fact there was a small ...

Update. Drained the oil and did an oil change. My magnetic oil pan plug was covered in small metal shavings. The Mann oil filter is really heavy so I know it also caught a lot of debris. The drained oil left golden color, non-magnetic particles on my draining felt. Car still runs but sounds like a ...

Picked up 5 quarts of cheap Dino oil from Walmart. They didn’t have 5 or 10W in the 40 weight so I got 10W30. Hope it tells me something.

BKM,
Thanks for all the great information you provided. Of course the car is so old it’s not worth putting the money into changing rings, etc. so I will try the cheap stuff first but your suggestion on the kind of oil to run in. It is invaluable. Thanks again!!
-MIJ

ZionXIX wrote: 04 Jul 2024, 23:39 Does the engine pass the glove test? If not, did the oil get burned off during blow-by?

Yes, a glove does not inflate!

MoVolvos, no, I did not figure out where the oil went but I think that being an older engine it’s burning it and my friend I lent The car to receive the car right after I had done my last oil change and he probably just never checked the oil until it ran really low, About 4000 miles. I’m gonna try ...

Just tried about a mile run slowly. On a coast it’s not bad but any acceleration at all and it’s loud as well! Once home and in neutral the sound is as loud as it was before. Sound seems loudest right in the middle of the front cam- the lifter you saw in the video.

Thanks Neil! Will try that! Anything unusual you saw from the video? And, yes, hydraulic lifters.

98 s70 T5. Almost 280k miles.
Lent to a friend. Only use synthetic oil. The car was 1000 miles away from an oil change when I got the call that something was wrong. No oil on the dip stick. Added 2 quarts- still nothing on the dip stick. Loud clicking after I filled to the max line on the dipstick ...

My 2004 V70 2.5T started to deteriorate from the top. I replaced the lower elbow pieces a couple of years ago. My son's S60 is in terrible shape. I found that taping off both the windshield side and painted surface adjacent to the rubber strip and painting in the cracks and covering the black rubber ...