I hate cars!

[doubt at inwave.com (Nate Mellom)]

"I was figuring that a head gasket would go slowly"

When the head gasket went on my '84, it was rather spectacular, in a 
wierd way.  Driving down the interstate at 75, I hear a loud 
WHOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH, while seeing a HUGE smokescreen of pure 
white smoke out the back end.  It was oddly calm and peaceful, until I 
got it towed home and tore the motor apart.  Total and complete carnage. 
  Hole in the block, bent valves, busted rods, pistons seriously f'd up.

2 engines later (second motor died due to a bad oil cooler seal and a 
malfunctioning oil pressure sender), and I sold it for next to nothing, 
my dogma and its carma didn't mix, I guess.

Nate


David Brown wrote:
> Hey big T,
> Until it went south everything looked good in the oil and coolant...  
> Good point and I kinda suspected same at 1st, I'll check these 2 things 
> tomorrow since there easy and I can do them before work.  I was also 
> going to do a compression test, but I'd decided that it must be 
> electrical.  I was figuring that a head gasket would go slowly so I had 
> kinda ruled that out. Good point though and I'll check and report in 
> tomorrow.
> 
> Thanks
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "T Berk" <bayareaberk@yahoo.com>
> To: "scirocco scirocco" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 5:18 PM
> Subject: Re: I hate cars!
> 
> 
>> --- David Brown <sharpshooter33@adelphia.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok so I get my Jetta finally running last week.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> I'm on my way home from work and bang!!! The jetta
>>> starts running like shit!  Acts like it's missing
>>> real bad and when I stop at lights it kinda sounds
>>> like a modified race car with a bad lope at
>>> idle....a pulsing kinda idle just barely keeping
>>> running.  I'm thinking it's some type electrical...
>>> O2 sensor or something.  I was getting white smoke
>>> as I backed into the garage and it smelled of
>>> flooding.
>>>
>>
>> OK, wait right there. Is is smelling of unburnt GAS?
>> Or is it smelling a sticky sweet glycol type sugary
>> stuff, as in coolant mixture?
>>
>> The reason I ask is you describe common symptoms of a
>> head gasket going south and letting coolant into the
>> combustion chambers.
>>
>>> I hate cars! Just when you start to enjoy driving
>>> one they get the "Feed me and pamper me some more
>>> attitude".
>>>
>>> Oh well at least I'm off tomorrow and I can work on
>>> it some.  It's not getting the new lighting harness
>>> though.... Teach it to act up on me... 8-)
>>>
>>> David
>>
>>
>> Pull your plugs in turn and report back with what they
>> look like. Also look in the (cool) coolant and see if
>> it has A. a sludgy foam type oil scum floating on top
>> and/or B. has been disappeared with no apparent
>> reason.
>>
>>
>> TBerk
>>
>>
>>
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