well, i had an oil leak from my spin on oil filter relocater so i took it off, cleaned it up and put everything back together, checked for leaks and that was that. this was friday. that very day i decided to take a trip with some friends up to boston to visit a friend in school. i found out the hard way that i should have driven my car locally around for a few days before i made a big trip with it.......
so i head up there. everything fine, except for a small water leak ihad forgotten about, i had just been adding water when it needed it. well after driving 200 some odd miles i had a large air pocket that caused my temperature to start to rise, before it got a chance to over heat i decelerated and the needle came back down instantly, whew! no over heating!
anyway, i pulled over, took a nice hoody i had brought and opened the radiator to fill it back up with water. guess i wont be wearing that during the boston blizzard that was to occur saterday.... drove up the rest of the way, no problems.
didnt drive the car at all until sunday morning when i had to get home for work at 11 AM! i left around 7 to give my self plenty of time to make it to work.
on i91 south bound, about 45 miles from the exit to i95 where i would have made the final approach home, smoke EVERYWHERE! and some nice burning plastic smell.
holy shit my cars on fire...so i pull over, wake up my friend whos sleeping in the passengers seat and tell her to "GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE CAR!!"
not knowing yet what has caused this fire i made her get a safe distance away from the car.
a few seconds pass and i realize that my dream is burning so i rush over there grab some water and a t shirt , open the hood and put the fire out.
after having busted my ass to get my car back together ( i had taken the turbo off to replace some gaskets...) i was feeling very discouraged.
got home several hours later after the tow truck came and needless to say iwas late for work.
after work i surveyed the damage which actually isnt bad at all. PCV hose burnt up, ps idle up vacuum line burnt and the o2 sensor and cps harness and clips burnt and melted.
could have been much worse.....
anyway that is why i put my motor up for sale, im STILL not sure what i want to do with the car, im gonna fix it but i am pretty tired of fixing it. i havent gotten a solid month of driving the car trouble free.
i started the car the other day and there is a MASSIVE oil leak from somewhere on the turbo side (duh), still dont know where its coming from as i havent had the time to start working on it again.
anyway, i suppose ill fix it again and see what happens, might sell it and my beater for something else, or keep it. who knows.
pictures follow, cant really see the damage, but hey everyone loves pictures right?
so i head up there. everything fine, except for a small water leak ihad forgotten about, i had just been adding water when it needed it. well after driving 200 some odd miles i had a large air pocket that caused my temperature to start to rise, before it got a chance to over heat i decelerated and the needle came back down instantly, whew! no over heating!
anyway, i pulled over, took a nice hoody i had brought and opened the radiator to fill it back up with water. guess i wont be wearing that during the boston blizzard that was to occur saterday.... drove up the rest of the way, no problems.
didnt drive the car at all until sunday morning when i had to get home for work at 11 AM! i left around 7 to give my self plenty of time to make it to work.
on i91 south bound, about 45 miles from the exit to i95 where i would have made the final approach home, smoke EVERYWHERE! and some nice burning plastic smell.
holy shit my cars on fire...so i pull over, wake up my friend whos sleeping in the passengers seat and tell her to "GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE CAR!!"
not knowing yet what has caused this fire i made her get a safe distance away from the car.
a few seconds pass and i realize that my dream is burning so i rush over there grab some water and a t shirt , open the hood and put the fire out.
after having busted my ass to get my car back together ( i had taken the turbo off to replace some gaskets...) i was feeling very discouraged.
got home several hours later after the tow truck came and needless to say iwas late for work.
after work i surveyed the damage which actually isnt bad at all. PCV hose burnt up, ps idle up vacuum line burnt and the o2 sensor and cps harness and clips burnt and melted.
could have been much worse.....
anyway that is why i put my motor up for sale, im STILL not sure what i want to do with the car, im gonna fix it but i am pretty tired of fixing it. i havent gotten a solid month of driving the car trouble free.
i started the car the other day and there is a MASSIVE oil leak from somewhere on the turbo side (duh), still dont know where its coming from as i havent had the time to start working on it again.
anyway, i suppose ill fix it again and see what happens, might sell it and my beater for something else, or keep it. who knows.
pictures follow, cant really see the damage, but hey everyone loves pictures right?
