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Originally Posted by Modshack
I had a friend with a Jag XK120 who did this...Owned it for 14 years and never changed the oil. Since it had a big sump and leaked/burned at a pretty good rate it really didn't matter.. He always had a relatively fresh batch of oil in there.....  |
LMAO. First car I owned was a 1953 Chevy that I bought in 1962. It burned/leaked oil at a prodigious rate but at 18 I didn't give a rat's *** - I had a car. It had some sort of scoop/pick-up oiling system for the babbitt bearings on the main shaft. I always knew when it needed oil because I could hear those bearings howl when I made a sharp turn (scoop wouldn't pick up enough oil when it sloshed to the side of sump in the turn). Never bothered to change the oil - just added some when the "audio" alarm sounded.