Reply to "Oil leaks and oil change"

Stan Galat posted:
I love these engines, but they may be the stupidest mass-produced design ever. Cases split side to side? No oil seal on the pulley end? 3 lousy main journals? No valve-seals?An oiling system only Rube Goldberg could love (oil bypass based on viscosity... seriously)?
Every time somebody starts to blather on about the "Sainted German Engineers", I want to grab their ear and drag them through a small-block Chevy so they can see how a real engine is designed.
It's possible to get them to make a lot of power, live a reasonably long life, and not leak oil by the gallons- but it'll become your life's work. Nobody will care, and sensible people will start to avoid you.
Call me Ishmael.

Lots of sensible people have avoided me over the years, first time I heard this excuse, but it makes sense.

8/24/1711:57 AM

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