DreadPirateRob
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2006 mustang GT 95k miles
A couple days ago while driving my car out of the blue began overheating. I've never had a cooling issue before so I didn't notice until it was already deep in the red. As I slowed down I noticed smoke coming out of my hood vents. Coolant was full but I noticed oil leaking, which looked like it was leaking from the oil pan gasket.
I started up the car today to move it a few feet up my driveway, and when it started the engine was making a new ticking noise. I figured that the car may have been burning oil and that the first thing to do would be an oil change, so I drained the car and found that when I measured it out, there had been 8.5 quarts in my car, plus whatever amount of oil had leaked or burned off. I do all my own oil changes and have never added more than maybe 6.1-6.2 quarts to my car.
Now, without making the story too long, I (used to) allow a friend of mine to drive my car from time to time , and when I asked him if he had done anything, he essentially said that he had been regularly adding oil without checking the level, because he had seen smoke coming out of the exhaust when driving hard and thought that it may have been burning.
So I've now replaced the oil and put in the proper amount. I haven't let the car run long enough to check if it would still overheat, but when I started it I could definitely still hear a tick, which sounded like it was coming from the valve covers. I also could still see oil dripping when I looked out of the car, but this may have just been the previously leaked oil warming up and dripping off.
My question is what do you think may have been damaged? Aside from likely replacing the oil pan gasket, what do you think was damaged/causing the noise in the engine?
A couple days ago while driving my car out of the blue began overheating. I've never had a cooling issue before so I didn't notice until it was already deep in the red. As I slowed down I noticed smoke coming out of my hood vents. Coolant was full but I noticed oil leaking, which looked like it was leaking from the oil pan gasket.
I started up the car today to move it a few feet up my driveway, and when it started the engine was making a new ticking noise. I figured that the car may have been burning oil and that the first thing to do would be an oil change, so I drained the car and found that when I measured it out, there had been 8.5 quarts in my car, plus whatever amount of oil had leaked or burned off. I do all my own oil changes and have never added more than maybe 6.1-6.2 quarts to my car.
Now, without making the story too long, I (used to) allow a friend of mine to drive my car from time to time , and when I asked him if he had done anything, he essentially said that he had been regularly adding oil without checking the level, because he had seen smoke coming out of the exhaust when driving hard and thought that it may have been burning.
So I've now replaced the oil and put in the proper amount. I haven't let the car run long enough to check if it would still overheat, but when I started it I could definitely still hear a tick, which sounded like it was coming from the valve covers. I also could still see oil dripping when I looked out of the car, but this may have just been the previously leaked oil warming up and dripping off.
My question is what do you think may have been damaged? Aside from likely replacing the oil pan gasket, what do you think was damaged/causing the noise in the engine?