I just remembered this, about 6 months ago when I was working at autozone I had a guy come in with a 94 4runner automatic 150k miles wanting to change his oil.

So I showed him the oil and got him a filter, followed him out to his truck cause he was old and couldnt carry the bags.

Well I stood out there to smoke a cigarette and he started it up, there was a rediculously loud rod knock, I stopped him and asked him how long it had been making that noise, and he told me "about a year and a half," I bout fell down and busted my a$$, I told him what it was and he already knew, he had the money saved up for a new engine and was just waiting for it to blow...so he drove around houston, tx with a rod knock for a year and a half.

 

damn.....

I guess that depends though, old people tend to put no miles on cars.

But still a year and a half is a long ass time for the rod knock.

 

+1 for screwston bayybehhh

 

Not wasting money on oil changes will speed up the inevitable.

 

nice i acually decided to stick with the 3.turd i am goin to rebuild it and turbo it

 

my dads old 93 had the 3.0...lost #5 somewhere along the line, drove it for almost a year and a half on 5 cylinders to and from work, and hauled alot of firewood. Finally found a dealership that gave him a good trade-in price....on a 98 Ram..I know I know. But the 3.0 was still kickin with 160K on the clock on 5cyls.

 

i drive my rig pretty hard, and the motor never quits on me, so im not surprise the abuse these engines can with stand

 

As much as evryone bashes the 3.0, when i blew the rod on my #5 i drove it for about 2 months while i got the money together to get it fixed.... little bit of white smoke in the air. but it went for a while

 

The 3.0 is a tough little engine The headgasket was just too weak... I swear, that thing can recover from some LOW rpms!

 

low rpms as in not stall???

 

Yes...