Nah, we found it, it was just buried in a dumb inconvenient spot under the air breather tube, right under that fucky wad of duct tape rigup…

Turns out, it was hiding under the duct tape on the air intake the whole time, on the driver’s side. Guess the video I found had me thrown off a bit. Like, they’re basically the same engine, but the video covered a 98, we got a 96…

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…

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 👍

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. 👍

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.

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.

We found it, ours just doesn’t have the extended filler cap tube, so it’s a bit buried down in there. At least it does have an oil cap though.

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.

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. 🤷

We will most certainly be looking again tomorrow…

It’s getting dark tonight, we’re gonna have to look at it again tomorrow.

At least I got a good idea where to look now…

Yeah that’s definitely not engine oil.

The red box post is where it’s supposed to be.

It’s getting dark right now and my camera sucks, so no more photos, at least not today.

I’m already 2 pages deep with 0 sanity left. Note this site for your own references, and of course backtrack to their home page…

https://charm.li/GMC/1996/

And that’s the mystery of the day, where do pour oil?

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… 🤷

Can’t find. Should be obvious right? But we can’t even find it ☹️

That’s power steering fluid…

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…