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Old 09-15-2005, 08:18 AM
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Unhappy I smell toast***updated***

Last night (early morning) on my way home I toasted my engine. Don't quite know the details yet, but I'm guessing a major oil leak developed that allowed the oil to blow out as fast as I was adding more???

She got me close to home, but I had to walk the last mile. I'll know more after I get her home tonight.

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Old 09-15-2005, 09:55 AM
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Add to your avatar that you toasted 1 engine.
Next you need to toast the rear end or something
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Old 09-15-2005, 10:01 AM
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dang.... Your stats are getting dangerously close to mine

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Old 09-15-2005, 11:19 AM
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4 trannies (2 auto 2 5mt)
3 engines (2 head gasket, 1 burnt valve)

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Stats like this warrant a medal system in the community.
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Old 09-15-2005, 12:34 PM
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not satisfied toasting transmissions, huh?

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Old 09-15-2005, 12:46 PM
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Dave,

not satisfied toasting transmissions, huh?

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Nah... The smell of burnt ATF just aint gettin me off anymore... Now I need to smell that burnt 10/30...

So... can I take your car for a test drive on Saturday???
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Old 09-15-2005, 12:59 PM
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smelling burnt oil is always fun... especially when only one of your exhaust pipes if blowing smoke... and a lot of it!!

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Old 09-15-2005, 02:01 PM
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Nah... The smell of burnt ATF just aint gettin me off anymore... Now I need to smell that burnt 10/30...

So... can I take your car for a test drive on Saturday???
You could drive my Pearlie, but it's box stock, (except for 4.44s) on maypops...
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Old 09-15-2005, 02:05 PM
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Nah... The smell of burnt ATF just aint gettin me off anymore... Now I need to smell that burnt 10/30...

So... can I take your car for a test drive on Saturday???

Cough....I think Chike was looking for an experienced co-driver
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Old 09-15-2005, 02:24 PM
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Old 09-15-2005, 02:26 PM
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You could drive my Pearlie, but it's box stock, (except for 4.44s) on maypops...
Thanks for the offer Tom, but I was just offering to kill Bill's engine literally. Rather than just the figureative Killing that the racer will be handing him on Saturday
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Old 09-15-2005, 02:58 PM
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Okay, okay....

Ben,
250 WHP in the racecar would be freakin' awesome (might have to take it on the driftin' circuit )

Dave (aka "TurfKing"),
The only "killing" the racecar will be handing me on Saturday will be the time I kill helping push the racecar out of the grass...
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Wow, the smack is being handed out here mercilessly

Nice job on your aluminum welding experiment Dave
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Old 09-15-2005, 05:30 PM
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Wow, the smack is being handed out here mercilessly

Nice job on your aluminum welding experiment Dave
I Have to do something to take my mind off the tragedy... Just like Bill will have to do on Sat night

Well I just got it home the last little stretch, so now it sits in my driveway... Now it's time to start figuring it out;

- The oil pan is overfull, Now I'm assuming that I was a little low when I first noticed, added and then when the symptoms got worse just added more oil, assuming that it was blowing it out somewhere. Honestly I can't say for sure if I checked the oil level after that original time.

- Last night about 1/2 way through the "10 miles of hell" I started getting a "oil pressure light" at idle. Any downhill opportunity I got, I would shift into N and let it idle or turn it off. It was also making a lot of valve type noise and an occasional bearing type screech.

- Towards the end last night and again tonight the engine will not rev freely in P or N. Nor would it accelerate beyond 2k with the trans in 1st/2nd.

- This is the 4eat that I recently lost 3rd/4th in. But I've still been driving around in 2nd and not running above 4k.

- Is it possible for a engine on the verge of seizing to NOT increase the coolant temperature at all?? My coolant temp stayed right in the middle... normal... the entire time this crap was going down.

- Tonight at one point as I crested a small hill, it seemed to "free" the engine slightly.


Now, after getting it home I had a thought... Is it possible that a bad torque converter and a binding/siezed input shaft could cause the engine to bind and stall, but still allow the car to coast in N???

Could this in anyway cause the timing belt to skip that would explain the valve noise????
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Old 09-15-2005, 05:39 PM
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WOW.... Sucks man.... Keep us posted .... Hope that ya still get to the Challenge
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