Yes - the rod bearings and possibly the lower halves of the crank main bearings are badly damaged. The rod bearings are always first to go when there is oil starvation. The engine will never be the same again - the rings also suffered badly - but if you act quickly the car will be usable until you can arrange a replacement. The bearings are sandwiches of metal - a steel outer shell, a thick bronze body, and a thin layer of babbit metal where it contacts the crank. The babbit metal was peeled away long before the engine shut down and the bronze was being chewed up. Odds are very good that the crank has not yet been damaged by contact with the steel shell - the steel crank is harder than the bronze - and a new set of rod bearings and maybe the lower half of the mains will stop the destruction.
I went through this with my daughter's Honda and did it myself. Three of the four rod bearings had spun, one was within a paper-thickness of contacting the steel shell, but when I replaced the bearings the noise was gone. I warned against more than 2/3 throttle acceleration and to keep the speed down to 65 mph because I had no way of knowing how much of a beating the rods had taken, but they drove it daily, putting 7000 miles on it in 7 months without incident. The compression was horrible and the check engine light stayed on (didn't know why, didn't care) but it got them around until they got rid of it.
The whole job was done in the car. I would expect spending $500-$1000 for a shop to do it and they won't guarantee anything. The car would have to be towed to the shop to minimize the risk of doing deeper damage.
A replacement engine makes more sense for many (most?) people.
You don't deserve to have a car! It's bad enough if you are driving while the oil is LOW. But you let it go until there wasn't any??? This would be comparable to letting all the blood out of your body. Oil is the life blood of the crankshaft and crankshaft bearings. They need pressurized oil on them every second that the engine is running. Then you kept driving it with NO oil???!! This damaged one or more of the crankshaft bearings and probably the crankshaft too. The tapping/knocking noise that the engine is now making is evidence of the damage that you caused.
If you keep driving the car, the damage will get worse and worse until there is a catastrophic failure of a connecting rod and/or the crankshaft. If a connecting rod breaks, it will probably make a hole out the side of the engine block!
You need to take an auto mechanics class/course.
The damage that you have caused already will be an expensive repair.
Check the oil and wipe the oil dipstick on a white paper towel. You will probably see metallic microparticles in the oil. It looks like the metallic in paint. That is your crankshaft and bearings eating each other apart.
Maybe you are just an automotive troll having fun with us?
Yea sounds like you have a lifter or valve tapping. All depends on the type of noise that you're considering to be funny sounding. Be more descriptive and you will receive better answers my friend. But that's prolly what it is if it's a clicking or ticking or tapping sound and it gets faster when you rev the engine up. Couple ways to prevent it. One get synthetic oil 5w-30 or go pay to get your top end rebuilt. Or lower end. I'd try swapping the oil to synthetic or go get some locus oil stabilizer to make it stop. Good luck
Probably screwed up the engine.That would be the funny noise. There is a thing called a dip stick. Some people actually use it to check the oil level. Too bad.
It's buggered up. Good luck with that.
2005 Pontiac g6 same oil for 3 months
