Man that's some seriously bad juju right there.... sounds like all hail broke loose! Sorry - couldn't resist. Insurance will take care of the other two cars and the skylights but you're SOL with the VX engine. Hope you find another engine (or rebuild) and get that zuzu back on the road soon.


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...topped it off, and 1/2 mile later it was 3 quarts low again....
The catalytic converter will mask oil burning - but not 6qts/mile. That VX would have looked like a mosquito truck going down the road if it had been burning oil at that rate. Had to be a leak. After reading the thread about IndianaVx's spinning cam seal I wonder if some of these catastrophic failures aren't from sudden leakage. What I don't understand is why no flashing check engine light before things get crunchy. I mean c'mon - even my $300 pressure washer knows when the oil level is too low to operate safely....