One of the first lessons I was told from an experienced mechanic, Jesse was from an example. I was shown another Porsche 928, which was sitting in front of Import Auto. The mechanic said the car is ready to go, but the owner has to come up with the money to pick it up. The mechanic asks me a question in disbelief. Do you believe the owner had blown the cams? Well I looked at him like, no? However, I was desperately wondering how could did he do that? The mechanic said to me; Ron, do not ever let your engine just run out of oil. So I had an oil paranoia since day one, as I did not want my 928 sitting at the shop with a couple thousand dollars worth of repairs, knowing I could never pick it up. In result, this began my journey of force feeding my 928 oil on a regular basis, as it seems the V-8 will just drink and drink. Well over the weekend, I discovered what happens when you overfill too much oil. The oil overflowed into my exhaust, and I was sporting this nice black cloud directly out of my tailpipe, which in result had blown oil all over the rear-end of my car, and I could not even begin to explain the exterior clean up. Right now I have a beautiful coat of oil ever where on the undercarriage, as I know this vehicle will never rust, and may be even found thousands of years from now in a perfect non-corrosion state. Needless to say, I am over the oil paranoia, and will not put another drop of oil in her, unless the dipstick tells me too, period. My friend Dave from D&D Auto told me the oil can be cleaned up by a product called 'Grease Lighting,' sold at Sam's, so picked up a bottle thinking I am going to do a through cleaning, until I get a message from my mentor, as follows:
Well, be careful about putting water in the block valley -- i will run out and straight down into the opening where the clutch arm protrudes from the upper bellhousing, and into your clutch. I don't remember if AT cars have the opening(or whether you have MT/AT) but even on an AT car you probably don't want water in that area as it can get into the starter. For the stuff under the intake I'd say just get some 1/8" welding rod and bend a small loop in the end, stuff a rag through the loop and use that to mop up anything in the valley. Intensive cleaning down there is just about impossible with the intake in place.
__________________Dave A.1978 928 5spdMy 928 Site
These learned lessons by mistakes are frustrating, but glad I am learning. I am uncertain about running the hose on the engine block as of now.......................
