So here's the deal with Mom's car. Supposedly what happened is when the mechanic went to replace the intake manifold gasket, he cleaned the surface of the old stuff with steel wool. A few of the fibers got down to the oil pump and caused the oil pump to fail resulting in no oil pressure. What needs to be done now is ... to replace the oil pump the whole engine needs to be dismantled.... it is approximately a 30 hour job in the best of times.... Happening at this time of year will require the car to be at the garage for about 2 weeks . They will need to inspect all the bearings to insure that they have not been damaged... replace the oil pump and clean the engine thoroughly. My garage man says he will inform the owner of all this (supposedly, he does not know about it yet) and he will tell him that we will need a rental car for the duration and for the garage to make the arrangements for that. After doing a computer search, they have since discovered a bulletin from GM saying, "do not use steel wool to clean the surface. DO YOU BELIEVE ALL THIS? Friday, December 18, 2009
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So here's the deal with Mom's car. Supposedly what happened is when the mechanic went to replace the intake manifold gasket, he cleaned the surface of the old stuff with steel wool. A few of the fibers got down to the oil pump and caused the oil pump to fail resulting in no oil pressure. What needs to be done now is ... to replace the oil pump the whole engine needs to be dismantled.... it is approximately a 30 hour job in the best of times.... Happening at this time of year will require the car to be at the garage for about 2 weeks . They will need to inspect all the bearings to insure that they have not been damaged... replace the oil pump and clean the engine thoroughly. My garage man says he will inform the owner of all this (supposedly, he does not know about it yet) and he will tell him that we will need a rental car for the duration and for the garage to make the arrangements for that. After doing a computer search, they have since discovered a bulletin from GM saying, "do not use steel wool to clean the surface. DO YOU BELIEVE ALL THIS? 
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And you call me Joe BTFSPLK? At least this one is your mechanic's fault and he should pick up the tab....RIGHT??? I hate cars. If it was a horse, we'd shoot it, go get another out from the corral around back and get on with it. The more we progress into the technical world, the more we rely on it. The more we rely on it, the greater our disappointment when it fails. My wife is a great one with that. I would get her the world, but then when it failed, she'd be even more upset than when she didn't have it to begin with. What's worse, getting the fuzzy end of the lollypop, or not getting any lollypop at all. Sure the fuzz will eventually get sucked away, and we'll be left with the sweetness of the sucker once more, but all it takes is a good gust of wind in cotton wood season, or jumping into a pile of leaves, and here we go again. Don't get me wrong, I like convenience. Heck, I'd be long gone without it. However, it can really make you say, "Grrrr...cursed things...."
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