Re: head toast? (long)

["Marie Laugesen" <scirocco@telus.net>]

 Paul, if it makes you feel any better, I hate my car right now too. My
automatic trans went *PoOf* on me yesterday...bigtime.  Shit, another repair
bill I just can't afford right now.

Fuck fuck fuck.

Let's go to the pub and get pissed. :))

Marie
Helios Blue '88 Scirocco Slegato (Blown trans at the moment... GUH!)



>hey everyone.
>
>i hate this car.
>bigtime.
>alright, so forget about this sputter problem i have, i think
>i got some SERIOUS shit to worry about!! alright, so i lean out
>the car the other day and drive it home, hoping it would calm
>down this sputtering. did nothing.i take off driving to go git grub
>and my buddy behind me calls me on my cell and tells me that my car is
>PUKING out white smoke. i was like WTF? so i don't nail it. i drive
>it home and leave it there. bring it to work the next day and notice
>that it doesn't stop blowing white. i richen it again, and it won't
>stop. odd. keep checking to see why it's sputtering and i notice
>that my intake boot was cracked on the side, replace that. doesn't
>do anything. anyways, when i took off the boot i noticed that
>there was a little bit of oil accumulation on the plate for the
>air/fuel distributor. so i cleaned it and didn't think much of it because i
>was so
>wacked out with the sputtering. i take it to a buddy's house
>and i notice now that it's blowing blue smoke. now i'm really wacked.
>we play with the fuel, doesn't do anything. i figure when it's blue it's
>blue. also my oil level was dropping so i knew it was burning it.
>
>so we're about to do a Lubro Moly Fuel Purging, when i take off
>the boot and there is a HUGE PUDDLE of oil on the plate. there was
>oil in my idle stabilizer, throttle body, EVERYWHERE. so while we're
>purging, i disconnect the hose that goes into the air box from the
>block breather and it's spewing out oil. yikes. so i park it there and
>don't drive it for the rest of the night. i come back and i was going to
>bring it to work and leave it there so i can work it. while driving it
>there it
>starts making this horrible clackin noise that sounds like it's coming
>from the head. i stop it and call to get it towed.
>
>now it's at work. i took the valve cover off to check and see if i could
>see anything. there was nothing obvious. what's the next step? i was
>thinking of
>running a compression test to see if the rings are blown. bent valve?
>headgasket? fuck!! 12,000 kms and it's toast? man, i'm totally wacking out.
>
>thanks for listening to me rant.
>
>paul
>87' scirocco16v
>
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