And as a footnote to the above...
While trying to start it, and now that it’s running, there was a decidedly ominous metallic whir coming from somewhere. Originally, i thought the starter was hanging, and I was hearing the thing spool down after it disengaged from the flywheel when the engine died/ stopped.
Once it was running long enough to actually slide under the car with the engine running, i discover that the starter was where it was supposed to be........i.e. NOT still engaged into the flywheel.
Yet,...there that noise was,....a metallic whirring....kinda like the noise you’d expect from a bearing no longer being lubricated.
Thoughts wandered....” I put a new front pump bushing in the transmission,..What if i didn’t line up the lubrication hole, and now the converter hub was running inside that thing without the benefit of proper lubrication?”
That notion requires this dude.
Removing the transmission in this car is exactly the same as monster V1.0.....The whole fckin mess has to come out.
I shuddered at the thought.
The one constant was that the whirring noise didn’t stop when the engine did. A definite plus when considering that it might be the converter. Cause just like the engine,..when it stops spinning, so does the converter.
But the turbo don’t. That dude could have a bearing failing...after all...it was only a 269.00 68mm Chinese turbo.....How long are these things supposed to last anyways?
I could live with having to replace the turbo if i had to....
I restart the engine on a mission...before i even can consider getting it running right, if i have to pull that bitch back out again, i wanna know tonight what it is BEFORE i get wakened by the 3AMD,.....
I get under the car...now actually quiet enough to hear stuff as opposed to the previous noisy ass tractor engine.........
And it reveals itself to me.
The engine is now pleasantly quiet, the whirring noise can be heard over all of it. At the rear of the car....
Strapped to one of the two rear mount radiators....
One of the two 10” fans...is howling away,..it’s bearing no longer doing what it was supposed to be doing,..and is now pissing and moaning, and making a whole bunch of racket......whirring away...
This was one of the original fans that made up the cat sucker...probably caught the brunt of the impact when the cat got sucked against the radiator...and was now....giving up the ghost.
R.I.P. Cat sucker.
So,....i get online,...... search 10” cooling fan.....Amazon has two...with mount straps,....for 34.00 bucks.
Ordered.
Until it gets here,..i’m cutting the wires to that fan....
I got no more whirring.