Thanks for all the input. No oil at all. I will be driving this vehicle a lot so I decided to get a Boston Bob rebuild. I have almost everything off the engine and am preparing to lower it out of the vehicle. I drove it home one night and changed the oil to drive it the next day. I got about 5 miles and had to turn back becuase the power dropped way off. The engine locked up and wouldn't turn over. After being towed 3 miles back it started again later. There was the loud irregular click thud. I am recording the removal - installation with a digital camera. I plan on putting it on my web site. >>> SStones <sstones@IDIRECT.COM> 08/27/02 07:39AM >>> At 06:14 PM 8/26/02 -0500, you wrote: >1984, stops running after a few minutes. Periodic nasty click-thud. >I drained the oil and then took off the oil filter. No oil in it at >all. >The oil level was right. Is it a defective oil filter? No oil in the filter at all? I'm thinking that there's got to be something terribly wrong with your oil pump, the pick-up tube or where the filter/cooler are mounted there is some sort of obstruction? I think you're going to have to start tearing into your oil pump... Maybe first, with the oil filter off, hold a glass jar up over the open filter nipple while someone cranks the engine for 5 seconds. If you're not getting any oil flow there is something really bad happenning. I expect you don't want to be running the engine at all, if those 5 seconds don't show some flow. |
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