trashtruck Posted October 10, 2017 Report Share Posted October 10, 2017 so i'm driving my 95 deville down i-90 at 70 mph when, without warning, the engine just shuts down. no power steering or brakes. i get it to the shoulder, dodging traffic and it fires right back up. a couple of hundred feet down the road, just long enough to get back up to speed it happens again. i get it home safely and while investigating find there are no codes and no indication of what happened or why. further investigation revealed that i was almost 2 quarts low on oil. i knew it was getting close to an oil change but i didn't realize it was that low as the idiot light never came on. i also didn't know that the 4.9 will shut down when low on oil to minimize damage. sorry for the rant. i learn something new every day with this car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockfangd Posted October 11, 2017 Report Share Posted October 11, 2017 Welcome to Caddyinfo. I am thinking that is not what caused your engine to shut down. I could be wrong though. was it on the stick at all? When it shut down did you still have lights and gauges? or did everything go dead If this was a northstar 2 quarts would not even affect it. GM FAN FOREVER Nice, clean, luxury= fine automobile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trashtruck Posted October 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2017 no, mine has the 4.9 non n*. all lights and gauges work when it happened and i suppose it could be something else, the oil was the first thing i noticed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trashtruck Posted October 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2017 SOLVED: issue had nothing to do with the oil. after digging a little deeper i found the distributor wasn't getting constant 12v due to a bad connector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockfangd Posted October 12, 2017 Report Share Posted October 12, 2017 thats more like it. GM FAN FOREVER Nice, clean, luxury= fine automobile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Nunnally Posted October 12, 2017 Report Share Posted October 12, 2017 Glad you found out more about the real issue (and added oil!) Bruce 2023 Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing Follow me on: Twitter Instagram Youtube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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