I'm posting this in the optimistic hope that bottom end of my 2.5 doesn't need a complete rebuild.
Car starts and runs fine, but once the engine is up to temperature, the oil pressure drops to 0 at idle. It will come back up about 15% under acceleration, but that's it. On a long drive a few weeks ago the engine started making some really awful noises which I assume to be rod knock. Shot bearings, right?
This is my second summer with this car. It has only 55k miles. Prior to that it was stored for 17 years so I suppose the bearings could have been damaged when it was put back on the road. But there were no issues last summer. This year it went in for some major service and I assume they changed the oil... anyway it hasn't been the same since that service.
Could I get by with a different type of oil? Is there some sort of "Alfa trick" that can help out in this situation? Anything else to check?
Thank you!
Car starts and runs fine, but once the engine is up to temperature, the oil pressure drops to 0 at idle. It will come back up about 15% under acceleration, but that's it. On a long drive a few weeks ago the engine started making some really awful noises which I assume to be rod knock. Shot bearings, right?
This is my second summer with this car. It has only 55k miles. Prior to that it was stored for 17 years so I suppose the bearings could have been damaged when it was put back on the road. But there were no issues last summer. This year it went in for some major service and I assume they changed the oil... anyway it hasn't been the same since that service.
Could I get by with a different type of oil? Is there some sort of "Alfa trick" that can help out in this situation? Anything else to check?
Thank you!