Ok Well today I got back from another 400 mile road trip to see the girlfriend....To make this week the worst of my life about 150 from home I hear what sounds like a misfire...a small pop..
Ok the car is old but it does not have a crap load of miles on it, it just clicked over 77,000. It does not have highway friendly gears and I think this trip was just too much....I was going a bit too fast for a bit too long I guess with it humming nicly at a little under 3K.
Ok I have put about 3,000 miles on the car since I had it and it does not burn any oil to my knowing. It always ran on the cool side, I'm thinking it has a 160 t-stat in it.
Well to get to the point after that little pop I just kind of shuged it off because I thought it was a misfire. After some more driving the temp started to slowly rise to about the halfway point. I'm thinking thats it's ok because I'm crusing at a good speed and it's still in the normal range. A little later I notice its about 3/4 of the way up....I'm like crap somthings up and turned on the heat to low to help kill some heat....it keeps going up and the air started to blow cold.....As soon as I noticed that I got off at the next exit and pulled into a gas station and popped the hood.....The overflow was boiling over.....not good!! I had a antifreeze bottle in my car and went in the bathroom and filled it with water..I dumped it over the rad to and the overflow to cool things down and it worked....
After the car got complety cooled off I noticed the line from the rad to the over flow was pinched and fixed it....I was thinking that might of caused something...so I topped off the rad with water and put some in the overflow.
I went to leave and saw the check oil light light....I was like !)#$*#@...Shut it off and pulled the dipstick with it showing the oil was just bairly tuching the tip....went back in and bought 2 qts of oil...Put in a qt and it was still at the fill mark...put in another qt and it still needed more!! I was like what the crap is going on the car never burned this much oil or any at all....I had to buy a 3RD QT and put in about 1/2 of it to make it right again...The car was running fine before and when I fired it up it ran just like it was new, nothing seemed wrong...Start driving again and noticed after about 20 miles it was back to the half way mark and climbing...when it got to the 2nd line from the red I pulled over again to find it doing the same thing with the over flow boiling....CRAP! I had a the anti freeze bottle filled with cold water, I let it cool and refilled it again.
To finish this story off I had to put the the heat on high and drive about 20mph slower than before to keep the temp at the 3/4 mark and it worked....I had to get home...When I got home I let it cool and pulled the cap off the rad...To my horror it was a milky brown....I knew right then and their why the oil was low before
Ok the only thing I can think of is my head gasget blew...that would expalin the pop OR MY BLOCK IS CRACKED!
What I want to know, can the oil still get into the coolent if it blew or is that a sure sign of a broken block....I want to cry
I know about doing a compression test but I'm convinced its cracked because of the color of the fluid...It runs fine though and their is no smoke comming from anywhere??
Ok the car is old but it does not have a crap load of miles on it, it just clicked over 77,000. It does not have highway friendly gears and I think this trip was just too much....I was going a bit too fast for a bit too long I guess with it humming nicly at a little under 3K.
Ok I have put about 3,000 miles on the car since I had it and it does not burn any oil to my knowing. It always ran on the cool side, I'm thinking it has a 160 t-stat in it.
Well to get to the point after that little pop I just kind of shuged it off because I thought it was a misfire. After some more driving the temp started to slowly rise to about the halfway point. I'm thinking thats it's ok because I'm crusing at a good speed and it's still in the normal range. A little later I notice its about 3/4 of the way up....I'm like crap somthings up and turned on the heat to low to help kill some heat....it keeps going up and the air started to blow cold.....As soon as I noticed that I got off at the next exit and pulled into a gas station and popped the hood.....The overflow was boiling over.....not good!! I had a antifreeze bottle in my car and went in the bathroom and filled it with water..I dumped it over the rad to and the overflow to cool things down and it worked....
After the car got complety cooled off I noticed the line from the rad to the over flow was pinched and fixed it....I was thinking that might of caused something...so I topped off the rad with water and put some in the overflow.
I went to leave and saw the check oil light light....I was like !)#$*#@...Shut it off and pulled the dipstick with it showing the oil was just bairly tuching the tip....went back in and bought 2 qts of oil...Put in a qt and it was still at the fill mark...put in another qt and it still needed more!! I was like what the crap is going on the car never burned this much oil or any at all....I had to buy a 3RD QT and put in about 1/2 of it to make it right again...The car was running fine before and when I fired it up it ran just like it was new, nothing seemed wrong...Start driving again and noticed after about 20 miles it was back to the half way mark and climbing...when it got to the 2nd line from the red I pulled over again to find it doing the same thing with the over flow boiling....CRAP! I had a the anti freeze bottle filled with cold water, I let it cool and refilled it again.
To finish this story off I had to put the the heat on high and drive about 20mph slower than before to keep the temp at the 3/4 mark and it worked....I had to get home...When I got home I let it cool and pulled the cap off the rad...To my horror it was a milky brown....I knew right then and their why the oil was low before
Ok the only thing I can think of is my head gasget blew...that would expalin the pop OR MY BLOCK IS CRACKED!
What I want to know, can the oil still get into the coolent if it blew or is that a sure sign of a broken block....I want to cry
I know about doing a compression test but I'm convinced its cracked because of the color of the fluid...It runs fine though and their is no smoke comming from anywhere??
) kind of letting you know to replace it. there should be another one or two maybe on the underside of the pump. its supposed to be there.
