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page 10 The Harper News
November 14, 2008
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DDear Ole Mechanic;
All of a sudden my old
ranch truck started
burning oil. It is an
1988 Chevy 3/4 ton pick-
up with a 350 V8 manual
transmission and has
about 190,000 miles on it.
I know that there are a
few leaks, as it will mark
its spot if I park it over a
clean part of my drive-
way. But the spots are
only three or four inches
across.
It also blows some
blue smoke out the
exhaust when I start it
and when I shift gears,
but not when I am run-
ning at a steady speed. I
checked a couple of
spark plugs and they
were dark colored but
not oil fouled. The
problem is that after
three or four days of use,
it usually needs one and
sometimes two quarts of
oil. Six months ago I
could go three to four
weeks before it would
need a quart of oil.
Would a new set of
rings cure the oil use?
Thanks for your help.
Getting in the Oil
Business
Dear Oil Business,
From your letter I do
not think a set of new
piston rings will help
all that much. Rings usu-
ally do not cause an
increase in oil loss
'all of a sudden', unless
the engine has some
other problem like
overheating. Also,
installing new piston
rings is not as easy as it
use to be. To begin with,
all of the fuel injection
and relatedsensors are a
real headache to remove
and get hooked back up
correctly. With 190,000
miles there will be a ring
ridge at the very top of
the cylinders that must
be removed so that the
pistons will not have
broken ring lands when
they are removed.
Speaking of removing
the pistons, there is not
enough room under the
engine to get the oil pan
off. The frame cross
member is in the way. If
you cannot get the oil
pan off, then you can not
unbolt the piston's
connecting rods from the
crankshaft to get the pis-
tons out. Really, you
should pull the engine
out of the truck.
Now do you really
want to put new rings in
the engine without put-
ting in new connecting
rod bearings? You would
be restoring the pistons
ability to make power
and then putting that
power through old rod
bearings. Even if you put
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new rings and bearings,
that would not address
the oil that is lost
through the worn valve
guides in the cylinder
head. By the way, that is
probably where the oil is
coming from that pro-
duces the blue smoke on
start up and when shift-
ing gears.
To address all of the
worn components that
could possibly be causing
the oil loss is going to
run you anywhere from
about $1,500 to $2,000.
Are you aware that you
can get a rebuilt engine
from most of the auto
parts houses for about
$1,800? It would come
with a one-year warran-
ty also.
There is something
that tells me that the
'sudden' oil loss may not
be related to the
engine's internal condi-
tion. What I would sug-
gest is to park the truck
over a clean area in the
driveway and let the
engine run for ten or fif-
/- L „V
teen minutes. You see, if
there were one to two
quarts of oil going
through the engine,
there would most likely
be oil fouled spark plugs,
so I would bet on a
recent bad oil leak to
be causing the loss of oil.
I suspect that one or
more of the spots will be
much bigger than three
or four inches in diame-
ter. Then you can follow
the trail of oil up to the
real bad leak that is at its
worst only when the
engine is running.
Happy hunting,
Herr Professor
Nuzanbolts
Dear Readers;
Not in the Oil Business
took my advice. He found
that the oil pressure sen-
sor was leaking rather
badly. The repair cost
him $5.88 for a new oil
pressure sensor which he
installed himself.
Send your questions to
The Harper News, P.O.Box
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Market Report for November 5,2008
Cattle: 1626 HD.
2-4 Lower
50.00- 61.00 CWT
2-3 Higher
About Steady
30.00- 45.00 CWT
600.00- 980.00 HD
750.00- 1000.00 PR
Medium to Large Frame #1
STEERS
HEIFERS
200-300 LB
100.00-135.00
90.00-115.00 CWT
300-400 LB
110.00-1 30.00
95.00-111.00 CWT
400-500 LB
100.00-1 25.00
85.00-105.00 CWT
500-600 LB
95.00-11 3.00
80.00-104.00 CWT
600-700 LB
85.00-105.00
75.00-93.00 CWT
LOWER QUALITY STEERS
LOWER QUALITY HEIFERS
50.00-80.00 CWT
60.00-74.00 CWT
Sheep & Goats: 2410 HEAD
OLD CROP LAMBS 50-90 LB
NA
NEW CROP LAMBS 40-60 LB
95.00-108.00 CWT
NEW CROP LAMBS 60-80 LB
95.00-102.00 CWT
PACKER EWES
25.00-45.00 CWT
SP/BOEX KIDS (UNDER 50 LB)
100.00-140.00 CWT
SP/BOEX KIDS (50-70 LB)
110.00-122.00 CWT
SP/BOEX NANNIES
30.00-70.00 CWT
SP/BOEX MUTTONS
90.00-120.00 CWT
ANGORA NANNIES
15.00-35.00 CWT
ANGORA KIDS (Unshorn)
80.00-95.00 CWT
BOEX NAN KIDS (40-60#)
100.00-126.00 CWT
BOEX BILLIES
70.00-90.00 CWT
1 BLK HFR
595#
100.00 CWT
2 CHAR STR
520#
111.00 CWT
1 CHAR STR
430#
124.00 CWT
9 BLK STR
453#
116.00 CWT
8 BLK HFR
568#
94.00 CWT
1 BLK HFR
405#
105.00 CWT
4 CHAR STR
616#
105.50 CWT
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MARKET REPORT
October 27,2008
SHEEP & GOATS
Total Receipts: 1795 Head
Lambs steady. Ewes and bucks steady. Kids mostly 4-6 higher.
Nannies, muttons & billies steady to 3 higher.
#1 SPRING LAMBS 50-70 LBS
0.92-1.00
#1 SPRING LAMBS 70-90 LBS
0.88-0.98
#1 OLD CROP LAMBS 50-70 LBS
#1 OLD CROP LAMBS 70-90 Lb
FAT EWES
0.30-0.40
THIN EWES
0.12-0.22
BUCKS
0.28-0.40
BABY TOOTH EWES
SOLID MOUTH EWES
EWE & LAMB PAIRS
BABY TOOTH ANGORA STOCKER NANNIES
0.45-0.79
SOLID MOUTH ANGORA STOCKER NANNIES
0.30-0.45
STOCKER ANGORA MUTTONS
ANGORA KIDS
ANGORA KIDS SHORN
1.00-1.15
WEIGHING ANGORAS-SHORN (THIN)
0.15-0.30
WEIGHING ANGORAS-SHORN (FAD NANNIES
0.23-0.27
MUTTONS
STOCKER SPANISH NANNIES
0.50-0.80
FAT SPANISH NANNIES
0.32-0.41
THIN SPANISH NANNIES
0.12-0.28
FAT SPANISH BILLIES
0.65-0.84
FAT SPANISH MUTTONS
0.80-1.00
FAT YEARLINGS
0.90-0.95
FAT SPANISH KIDS
1.03-1.16
SMALL KIDS
1.00-1.21
THIN KIDS
0.80-1.02
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