It should be around here:

It might be underneath some hoses or similar due to PDO. If push comes to shove, you could always use a skinny funnel and pour it down the dipstick tube...
It should be around here:

It might be underneath some hoses or similar due to PDO. If push comes to shove, you could always use a skinny funnel and pour it down the dipstick tube...
Just pour it over the engine. Make sure you give it a good thorough coat. It’ll work its way in.
I generally make sure the entire block is evenly coated in a thin layer (a shop rag helps), then stick it in the oven at 450F for an hour to let the patina cure. After a few coats you should have a nice, even surface.
That's usually what I accomplish.
The alternator doesn't like it though
I just mix it in with the blinker fluid. 12:1 ratio
Is that an oil cap in the right of the picture? Just in front of the duct taped intake. It's a black cap with amber writing on it, so that's what I suspect. If it goes directly to the engine, that's it.
That's power steering fluid..
Oops, don't want that. Could you take two more pictures, I've from the left and one from the right? Unless that red box someone drew got it.
Can't find. Should be obvious right? But we can't even find it ☹️
Yes, that's exactly where it should be, but we've been investigating this thing for about a half hour now. We simply can't find it, and the one half obvious thing top side is for power steering fluid, not engine oil..
It's getting dark right now here, no more investigating tonight.
The video link I found seems to be the same exact engine though.. 🤷
Hello! Heed me op, got your fix right here. There's a goofy filler neck that comes off sometimes, a couple people have marked where it's supposed to be with red squares. It's gone though! There will be a hole in the top/side of the valve cover there with lord knows what field expedient solution plugging it. ~Mine~ was a chunk of radiator hose that came up to the original location with the original cap jammed back in it to retain convenient access, but we can't all be the world's greatest shadetree mechanic. Here's a video of some nerd actually fixing it with factory parts like a big dumb loser with way more money than me, just to help you find it:
We found it, on the passenger side valve cover. Ours just doesn't have the extended filler cap tube, so it's buried down in there, but at least it does have an oil cap.
Looking at this, you better put the oil in a different car.
His previous vehicle ran fucking great! It just had an unexpected situation, we highly suspect arson, but no proper evidence as of yet..
https://lemmy.world/post/45294636
Anyways, now we got this beater Sonoma, but at least it runs, and pretty smoothly at that for being 30 years old.
We found where to put the oil, it only needed ~3/4 of a quart. I'm pretty sure this one needs oil more than the last one..
Just pour it over like olive oil on charcuterie and you'll be good. Trust me
You really want to change those intake boots. You can get cheap ones off ebay/aliexpress for <$50. It will ruin the engine sooner than later if you don't.
If the head gasket is fucked enough you can put it in the same place as the coolant.
No owners manual in the glovebox? If there is, there might be a diagram in there.
There's not even a glovebox, that was cut out and replaced with duct tape. It's a wonder the title was still around.
Previous owner deceased, and the truck runs and all, but it's a headache..
You can find most owners manuals PDFed online. At least for appliances, electronics, etc. I've never looked for an auto one...
Simple: try putting it in each hole and if the car doesn't work just take it back out
Usually on the top left near that jumble of hoses where the valve cover is, there is a filler neck sticking out. I can’t see it in this picture though.
And that's the mystery of the day, where do pour oil?
Going by all the hacky looking fixes, it may have snapped off or been removed for some reason. I’d rustle around those hoses in that area to see if you can at least see the valve cover and feel around for an opening.
It's impossible to tell from the picture and I have no experience with it, but have you checked for a cap labeled "engine oil"? 13:10 in the video you posted
I think its on the driver side next to the brake booster, between the booster and the engine near the firewall. Worst case Ontario you can fill it through it's dip stick hole.
I know it's a typo but "worst case Ontario" is absolutely becoming part of my lexicon
No, what you're seeing in the photo is for the power steering fluid. We found the engine oil filler cap, it's on the passenger side, buried down in there. Its a shame it doesn't have the extended filler cap tube, but we got funnels, so no big deal.
You can probably buy the extended filler cap. They should just thread in where your current oil cap goes.
I was actually mistaken on that part, it does actually have a short extended filler cap, it's hiding under the air intake hose, and it's actually on the driver's side. My roommate and a friend found it while I was still sleeping on the couch, I was a little confused how my roommate explained the location to me, until I went downstairs to check for myself. Its definitely in an awkward to get to spot, but we got funnels, and it needed about 3/4 of a quart, topped off now. 👍
I wasn't talking about the power steering cap in the pic, I thought it was behind that closer to the firewall. In the drivers side like you said. Between the engine and the brake booster.
Yep, ultimately that's exactly where I found it. I guess part of the confusion came from the video I found. Sure, dude's video covered everything fairly well, but I think he said the one he was working on was a 98, we got a 96, so I guess GMC shuffled some parts around between those years. 🤷
At least we found it though 👍
Yeah the dipstick hole was gonna be my fallback idea too. But you’d have to be really patient!
I expect the car would have a manual with detailed instructions. Or google the car model.
Somehow I doubt that a 30yo model will have its manual hanging around, or to be in one piece after 30 years, especially knowing the paper quality of that era...
We found it. For whatever reason, ours doesn't have the extended filler neck tube, but at least it does have an oil cap, its just buried down in there.
As far as the manual, this thing doesn't even have a glove box, half the dashboard itself was just straight up cut out and covered over with duct tape. I'm pretty sure the previous owner did that to make the passenger side into something of a bed for semi comfortable sleeping. 🤷
In the video, the truck is a different color at the end. Looks like a janky spray paint job. Maybe he ran over a pedestrian and had to go "incognito".
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