Engine: Starting Up That Old Stude Engine? (video)

[DEEPNHOCK]

This is for all the CASO's out there that want to save a buck by just starting up that old Stude engine.....

Look at what is in the pan on this video.
A quick dump and re-fill is not going to get that gook out of the pan area....

[brngarage]

Thanks Jeff!!

[studebakerkid]

His motor is fried. That tray that he is dipping the slime out of is what the connecting rods dip into. You can clearly see the oil slingers on the connecting rod caps.

[sweetolbob]

Andy Granatelli said "Looks OK to me"

[showbizkid]

So that's how they make jellied petroleum!!

[52-fan]

That actually looks better than the mess in a B model Mack I saw. Nothing came out of the drain plug and, when the pan was removed, the residue looked like soft tar.

[Mrs K Corbin]

just did an allis chalmers B the same way..... Sludge for oil....

[lark55]

Yuck! One of the jobs I had in my wayward youth was servicing a diesel power plant on a rock crushing operation. That oil reminded me of the oil bath filters I serviced.

[EssexExport]

Bad news had he not discovered that.

[Jeff_H]

From the color, looks like maybe it had a lot of water in it and got stirred up from the short run before he dropped the pan. Wonder how old that oil was! Maybe even old non-detergent stuff. Does a Model A have a oil pump or is it all splash lubed?

In 1998 I bought a car from a salvage yard auction that had 1978 plates on it. Engine was stuck. After sitting over winter with ATF in the cylinders I got it loose. But, I did drain the oil before attempting to start it. Got only a few drops of water out but the oil did drain normally and I didn't see any globs or chunks. I did get it running badly eventually (sticking valves that bent some of the pushrods). Scary to think that now in 2015 that car has been setting down at the farm almost as long as it was at the junk yard before I got it!

BTW, loved that fella's choice of garage tunes. Sounds like Dick Dale & the Deltones

[lark55]

I don't know about the model A's but the later flatheads had a drain plug large enough so that you could put your hand inside the pan and scrape out what was on the bottom.

[TWChamp]

Model A's have an oil pump to lift the oil to the valve chamber. From there is gravity feeds through tubes to the main bearings, and the overflow in the valve chamber flows onto the timing gears.

On an unknown engine it's always good to drain the oil, then I take a bent coat hanger and stick into the drain hole and scape the pan bottom and carefully pull it out to see if it picked up any sludge. If it has sludge, then the pan gets dropped and cleaned out.