Oil system myths
I think the term 'sucked dry' is just another way of saying the pickup tube is uncovered.
The real miracle of these oiling systems is that they work as well as they do.
That’s a FACT! This stuff was never designed to do what we do with it (to it!).
I agree with the pickup getting uncovered. That’s a better way to describe it.
In fact, in 1970 my parents bought a Ford Maverick. It was a “grabber” and I still think it was a cool car.
It had a straight 6 in it. It had two issues, one of which was never fixed.
That was the heater. That damn thing never worked. And the Ford dealer changed out everything. That sucked not having heat. Sucked HARD.
The other was turning in one direction would make the oil light come on. I can’t remember if it was a right or left turn, but it did it almost every turn.
My mom was pissed. She wanted my dad to fix it, but it was under warranty, and he wanted Ford to fix it.
So he took it to the dealer a couple of times, and they changed the sending unit to a higher pressure and called it good. Took the old man about 5 minutes to figure that out, and he gave up on it and was going to wait for the warranty to end and the fix it.
My mom was LIVID. She wanted to choke my dad out, and stomp the Ford people into the dirt.
One morning my mom said get in the car, uncle Pat is meeting us at the Ford dealership. So my my mom, me and my 3 year old brother get in the car and drive to the dealership.
My mom blows into the shop like she has a rocker up her butt. Now that I think about it, it was turning right, because we had to turn right to get into that craphole and the light came on.
So we jump out and she grabs my brother. We storm the service managers office and my mom threw the keys at his head and said “you make the F’ing payments on it until you FIX it” and out we went.
2 days later, it was fixed. The issue? The wrong pickup tube was installed at the factory. It was too short, and the way the pan was made/baffled it would only uncover turning right.
Funny the crap I remember and what I can’t remember. But that was a learning experience.
