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Re: Need some advice for a friend Posted by vvack0matic [Email]  (#1443) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from vvack0matic) on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:40:19
In Reply to: Need some advice for a friend, Steve Schwedland [Profile/Gallery]
, Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:12:28
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a few minor things can go wrong to make the car over heat bad,
just a few things i caught my wonderful little lady of mine doing(88spg)
the heater core on the motor side where the upper and lower hoses hook up to formed a small leak on the lower snout, leak ever so slow until after a yr or so the plastic snout for the lower hose became brittle and just broke off sending my coolant out the back of the car, at 80mph with a cool running motor, when all the coolant is let out it takes only 2 min before the needle climes to red. (no coolant)
another thing that can affect the motor to over heat in a way the driver of the car would never know, nor would the shop owner find.
little story:
i was on my way to key west, it was around 11:00 pm i was just cruising along, had the cruise set and was chill en
and what happens, my head lights wanted to take a little rest, so they shut them-self off, now im cruising round 80 when the turned off, i had parking lights but no headlights, when this happened i didnt take the cruse off or even think to hit the brake, only thing that came to my mind was (that's odd)
after about 8 sec. they turned them-self back on. so i thought ok i better start to look for a place that has light,
.. now the car was running a little on the hot side all day and into night, i just thought it was the coolant mix i did, mixed 70%coolant 30%water.
back to finding place with light, found this gas station that was closed but had a small light, i popped the hood and went for the fuse box,
after finding it was a short in the headlight relay i glanced at the motor as i was going to shut the hood, what did i see, one fan running,
i had the ac. on and it hit me like a rock the passenger side fan is not on,..
now back in the day i found the driver-side fan shorting out on me, the connection that runs a foot of the back of the fan to hook it to the cars wires becomes faulty, i had cleaned and made a fantastic fit which made the driver side fan work with no problem, i was going to do the same for the passenger side fan but i thought at the time, there's no need to
it works fine,
back to the gas-station with dim lit light,
i wiggled my way under the front of the car and grabbed ahold of the fan wires and shook them violently, then bang the fan started to work,
then riped apart the connection and cleaned the best i could, (got to get back under there and do it right)
anyhow-
after the fan works the heat came way way down.
im so freak-en happy my headlight relay went,
but if you friends losing coolant, it would be seen out the tail pipe
it would look like the movie (fog) or is that revenge of the fog
anyway that would point to what Phil labeled his post,
what happens is a piece of the gasket breaks,burns,shrinks to form a small gap which the coolant takes to get to the cylinder chambers,
then the piston burns the water, or coolant and sends it out the tail pipe,
one other thing can happen,
seeing its a 93t it would have a water cooled turbo and if its fried it would send water right to the exhaust manifold or it just may send it to the cambers, but for the turbo to send coolant to the piston chambers it would have to get through the intercooler and well.... that's a lot of travel for the coolant,
to find where the coolant is coming from head gasket or turbo unit
pull the spark plugs look to find one that look very very clean, perhaps still wet
if all of them look to be very clean it maybe turbo related
if you find just one wet head gasket related,
if none look wet or cleaned very very well, the turbo may be sending the coolant straight out the tail pipe
if you find all the plugs wet or cleaned very very well, put the plumbing off the turbo, look for traces of coolant, then pull the inter-cooler, it should be full of coolant, if so rebuild turbo head gasket fine.
whew my fingers are tired...
posted by 65.1.1...
, Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:12:28, Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:40:19 <-- Viewing This Message
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