on my way home the other day the car was leaking some coolant out of a pinhole leak in the rear engine-valve heater hose...
i shut it off, get the mail, and 30 seconds later its steaming out the hood. dripping coolant onto exaust downpipe. no biggie...need new hose.
its been about 5-6 days (been kinda busy, and the hose took 2 days to come in)
i unscrew the oil cap and i see what looks like beads of condensation...meh..no biggie, the whole engine bay has some spots of water here and there.
i look at the cam lobe.
awww shit. purpleish rust. and the oil cap had a little bit of a coating... i'm hoping its not a BHG, and i doubt it is.... i didnt really do anything to do that. and i cant afford to fix it now so lets not jump to conclusions!
my problem: there's the rust on at least one cam lobe, it was in the upmost position, obviously out of the oil and apparently moisture got to it. i can wipe it off with a kleenex/my finger so i believe it will all come off with a couple revolutions. i'm not too worried. what do you think i should do? just start it up and let my WIX filter take care of it? i'm not sure what else i really could do...but i thought i'd check to see exactly how bad it could be. i'm probably going to just start it up and keep tabs on the oil.
blahhh...here are some pics. before during and after some mild scraping with my finger/fingernail and a kleenex
i shut it off, get the mail, and 30 seconds later its steaming out the hood. dripping coolant onto exaust downpipe. no biggie...need new hose.
its been about 5-6 days (been kinda busy, and the hose took 2 days to come in)
i unscrew the oil cap and i see what looks like beads of condensation...meh..no biggie, the whole engine bay has some spots of water here and there.
i look at the cam lobe.
awww shit. purpleish rust. and the oil cap had a little bit of a coating... i'm hoping its not a BHG, and i doubt it is.... i didnt really do anything to do that. and i cant afford to fix it now so lets not jump to conclusions!
my problem: there's the rust on at least one cam lobe, it was in the upmost position, obviously out of the oil and apparently moisture got to it. i can wipe it off with a kleenex/my finger so i believe it will all come off with a couple revolutions. i'm not too worried. what do you think i should do? just start it up and let my WIX filter take care of it? i'm not sure what else i really could do...but i thought i'd check to see exactly how bad it could be. i'm probably going to just start it up and keep tabs on the oil.
blahhh...here are some pics. before during and after some mild scraping with my finger/fingernail and a kleenex



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