- Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:47 pm
#144193
car paranoia
I think its ever since i moved out of my parents place and rely on my car more heavily..
Maybe its because the first turbo install ended so horribly
But im paranoid as all hell about my car right now.
I went home for lunch worked on it some, went inside warmed up some pizza and couldn’t stand the thought of eating it, my stomach has be tied up ever since I left for work this morning…
This morning I start the car to let it warm up and notice a big puddle of something under it. I thought at the time it was oil, and was dead sure the lack of a catch can was forcing oil out of some where or the breather box on the back side of the engine blew out or something. Also the idle is up at the 2k mark.
I check the oil, it looks a little low but no biggie, I add some and go to work.
On the way to work some weird smells and occasional smoke from under the hood.
*mini freak out*
Just before lunch I go out to the car and see that it’s a puddle of coolant and its dripping from the turbo some where. Ok that makes more sense than the breather box thing. I also notice the turbo drain line is kinked and damn near folded in half. I jump on line and realized what I though was a throttle body coolant valve (that I bypassed for the turbo coolant lines) is actually the hot idle control valve (solves the idle thing).
LaMbErT* wrote:Im not very clued with turbos but you could honestly write a book, that was an intense read of today!
Thought i was gunna break down before the end thinking is there a happy ending to this story ? lol
yah know what
in the end i feel every thing is there for a reasion.
I jumped into this whole thing a little too fast, and tried to save money, piece it together with what ever i had kicking around....
This whole thing has showed me i need to pay attention to the homework i do.
oh,
that and always have an extra engine kicking around for emergency use
I talked to my pops and he said im more than welcome to use the extra car for how ever long i need it.
first step when i get home is to pull the air filter and see if there is any shaft play
if so i know the metallic noise was the turbine hitting the case and the stumbling at 0 psi also was.
if no shaft play ill run to the auto store and pick up a set of colder plugs.
if that doesn’t solve it the turbo kit is coming off.
if things dont go back to normal im going to baby the heck out of the car (keep an extra $100 around for a tow truck) and ill just drive it short range (work and back) till i got the money to build another engine, or until it dies....
what ever one comes first!
I feel like im complaining a whole lot here and i appreciate the opportunity to vent. It just feels way better to lay every thing out in a *some times* logical manner.
I smoke my own meat!
Chance is a homo # 69
