I have another question about a different vehicle I have been working on a 1980 Honda Civic 1.3 DX it has 107,300 miles on it and has been parked since the clutch went in 1991. I have been restoring it for a daily driver for fuel mileage since it got 41 mpg back in the day so last May I brought it home and basically went through the whole thing including paint and all. I changed all the fluids and it didn't use any oil when I parked it in 91' I used Castrol GTX 10W40 and that's what I put back in it has been running well so I was going to go on a longer trip than lately about 15 miles to the local auto parts store and I got 8 miles and it started rattling and the oil light came on so I shut it down checked the oil and it was full. I started it up and revved it a little and the oil light went out then the noise went away but the light came back on and would not go out so I turned it off and hauled it back to my shop. When I looked closer the oil appeared to have gas in it and looked black and thin this oil had no miles on it more than 20 at the most. So I hope (fingers crossed the gas thinned the oil down and made the light come on)I know gas may have got in because I had a bad carb a couple weeks ago and it filled the carb throat with fuel and flooded badly until I changed it to another new one, any opinions? I am adding new oil and filter tomorrow and then if the light is still on I will do a pressure check. Anyone have any experience with contaminated oil doing this?
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