Re: 110 Six oil pickup

Posted by 40clubcoupe On 2016/2/29 21:08:04

Thanks for talking about this guys. I put 5 1/2 quarts in...one 5 quart jug and a 1/2 of a quart bottle. The specs for a 245 Six call for 5 quarts, so I would not think 1/2 quart would do anything unusual. The "stand" that the pickup mounts and floats off of seems sturdy and not bent.

Thinking about the physicals here, it seems improbable that the oil pickup could collide with anything else under there, but yet that gash in the top of the pickup is suspicious...and it seems freshly made.
Entertaining the dreaded topic of bearing failure, would a main or rod bearing failure sound and feel like your knuckles knocking on the oil pan ?
In comparing the oil pickup with another engine, if I don't find anything to blame there I would then need to start pulling bearings caps and investigate. Oh my....