Brennon Posted: Nov 25 2005, 06:41 PM

 

I can't tell you how many brand new s2k owners have had this same problem. That issue is compounded because the car burns oil much faster when there are very few miles on the engine. Especially if you pushed the car into the higher ranges a moderate amount, the car will lose oil. Perhaps you never ran completely out of oil, but if it was quite low by the time you did all your oil changes, then it is quite possible this caused the bearing issues. High power low displacement n/a engines will burn some oil by nature, so take it as a lesson learned either way.

 

From a legal standpoint, I agree I am not sure how they could deny coverage if you claim to check it regularly and have receipts for all your oil changes. As long as there are no other leaks or the like to be at fault for the loss of oil, they'd have to be jerks to deny you [wouldn't that be a shocker..]

 

Come on.. geeesh.. this is NOT rocket science... "plain" bearings and bearing failure is old old stuff. There are many bearing wall charts that show a pic of a bearing, and what the most likely cause was. If oil starvation is the cause just looking at the bearing will tell you. That said, lack of lubrication could be a defective oil filter, a plugged up oil screen, or a bad pump or pump drive. A bad pump is easy to eliminate as the cause, it either is broken (or the drive to the pump is broken) or it is not broken. Here is a link to one bearing maker's "wall chart"

http://www.clevite77.com/publications/CL77-3-402.pdf

All the bearing makers have similar charts. Note this chart is aimed at the eingine rebuilder that had a fairly low hour engine problem. And yes they mention lujubrication failure yet they do NOT point fingers, they merely state what the mechanical causes can be... then leave the "you ran it low on oil" up to the mechanic, once all the other possibilities have been eliminated.