Bet that old buick had the 2.5L 4 cylinder named “the iron duke”.
That motor would live up to it’s name. It’s history can be traced back to marine engines.
It’s ONLY weak points where valve cover gaskets and the fiber timing gears.
I’ll have to ask him what it had.
But the day it dumped the oil out was quite interesting.
And all the seals were fine.
That was teh weird part.
Had us scratching our heads for the whole week.
He described the experience like this:
“I was driving on Route 84 heading from PA into NY and heard this horrible noise that sounded like the car was razzing me. Next thing I see, a huge cloud from under the car, followed by an oil slick behind me. I went to pull to the side of the road. As I got to the shoulder the car slammed to a halt.”
We all laughed when he did his impression of a Buick blowing him the raspberries.
We all figured the engine was toast.
I still don’t know what happened or how it did it.