ok..so I was coming home from Okotoks when my check engine lite came on. I thought I'd detour from Deerfoot trail and head down MacLoed tr. My car quit at 194 th ave. I phoned my buddy Martin who was at home luckily. He came and we put oil and water into it and got to 162 av. It quit again. So we phoned AMA. We figured the head gasket had blown. Poor little car....it doesn't owe me anything. I was beating myself up cause i was going to take it for its 5000 k oil change and they were going to take 1/2 an hour yesterday so I thought...ok I'd do it in Okotoks....well ...I got to Okotoks today and though,...;hey...id' do it on the way home....but ...what i didin't know is that I think it was leaking oil. The stupid Oild lite didn't come on....but eh check engine lite did. I pressed it til I got part way into Calgary. I may have totally screwed this poor little engine.
Jason...I need a comment here!
I had it towed to Lad's auto ...my favorite mechanic....but am not expecting good news. It was smoking stuff...out of the tail pipe when it was shut off. And the heater wasn't heating. I thought we could get it to the nearest firehalll but it wouldn't start again. I think my baby has died!
I think it might have been my fault...but don't know at this point. It has never used oil at all before.
AHHHHH!!! JAAAASON>>>>>> is this thing done!????
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Car is toast
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Check you antifreeze for oil and your oil for water (murky oil/beads). That should tell you if your headgasket is gone.
Antifreeze was down so we added water,.Heater wasn't circulating to get heat. When stopped steam was coming out of the tailpipe, added two litres of oil to bring it up to the add mark, didn't see any murky stuff on the stick. Got it started once, drove about 20 blocks when it overheated and quit for the second time, and couldn't get it restarted. CAA towed it to LAD's auto where I get my work done. At least it turned over so it wasn't seized.
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