In my 35-plus years of driving and working on cars, I have encountered nearly every cause of engine failure, from bad habits that ruin the car engine to faulty oil pumps to ordinary mileage-related wear and tear. One of my shade tree mechanic gigs was repairing dozens of classic cars that were parked in a field in Chalmette, Louisiana that flooded during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Water creeped into quite a few of their engines, causing damage that ranged
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