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Tomorrow at 8am I'm having the car towed to a shop to have the oil pan dropped. I can't find anyone to help me do it at home, Craigslist "mobile mechanics" are a joke, and like the rest of the world it seems, cannot even show up on time for an appointment.
As far as I can tell, I'm one of 3 people in this world that will show up when I say I'll be there, or call if I'm more than 5 minutes late.

Anyways, the pan is coming off tomorrow, the story will be told.

I either have some random piece of crap stuck in the pump, or some much worse is going on.
I'll know tomorrow.

I'm on the verge of a breakdown, I saved for years, spent my life savings on this car, only to have it run a for about an hour, and now I'm looking at who knows how much to fix the car.

I burned up a friendship by having my car stuck on his lift, where he had to take his own car to a shop to work on it because my car was tying up his lift. A simple oil change turned into what? I don't know, 8, 10 days on his lift, he's pissed, I'll never be able to use his lift again. This is starting to suck really really bad.

Tomoorow, I just hope I don't find bits of rocker pins, or something that requires the motor be removed and rebuilt.

The car will sit for a long time if that's the case, as I already overspent what I had on the car itself.

We'll know tomorrow.