sick car :-(

Post by **aza013** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:42 pm

I just went to go for a drive to a mates house and got ten mins from home when the car started to bog down under power and blow smoke

turned into a servo and went to check out the probles.
the car then stalls I went to restart it, it was cranking but would not start and then nothing

the battery is fine, I am thinking I may have done a pissten

due to how it stopped cranking over, but not 100% any one got any ideas

I had to get a tow back home

any help will be great thanks

manofwood · Post by **manofwood** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:57 pm

what colour was the smoke

FTO338 · Post by **FTO338** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 8:07 pm

Sounds like a symptom you get when you have a faulty stepper motor.

When you crank it to start, did you give it a light throttle to see if it will crank over?

payaya · Post by **payaya** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:27 pm

smoke?? if its a greyish type its more than a stepper motor for sure.

Post by **aza013** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:23 pm

the smoke was a blue colour.
it may not be pisstons the more I think about it as there was no scrapping noises

could be aultenater but there was no battery light

what other signs would you get with a stepper motor

manofwood · Post by **manofwood** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:52 pm

blue smoke normally means burning oil, perhaps you've lost a ring?

Post by **aza013** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:26 pm

had a little look around the beast today every thing looks ok externall so it has to be internall.
I am thinking that to manofwood and then when it will not turne over now may be a piston has gone as well

if so looks like a rebuild I did want to get it worked to a 2.2L - 2.4L so may get the chance to now.
will have to see what happens when I get it opened up

manofwood · Post by **manofwood** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:02 pm

are you getting the extra cc's from boring it out, or have you found a stroker?

Post by **aza013** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:44 pm

its only stock at the moment 2L, it just comes down to what is wrong with it and if its bad go from there

lwrida · Post by **lwrida** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:15 pm

Holy Sh*t aza sorry to hear about it, your fto was immaculate

Post by **aza013** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:31 pm

it was LOL but its 10 years old something has to go sooner or latter

what S**TS me more is that I have never really given it a hard time

I give it a hit of power every now and then but not all the time.
and when it went bad I was only driving it like a granny

Delvance · Post by **Delvance** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:28 am

Ouch, that sucks so much Aza. Sorry dude

Hope it ain't too expensive to fix.

I rarely hold back on my car...but she gets some major tlc. Full synth oil every 5000kms with nulon additives and full warm up and cool down procedures. She's still running healthy as ever... no loss of power/response from interval dyno tests. a lot of engines can actually be thrashed quite hard and live a long healthy life, just gotta show tlc in maintenance and warm up/cool down.

Post by **aza013** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:30 pm

ok started to get the little beast opened up today, checked cam belt to see if that had gone-thats all good took out the pluggs and tryed to see if she would crank and yes she did

but a S**T load of fuel was in there and just flowed and flowed

took out the injecters and doing a bench test on them as they may be stuck open.
so if all gos well I may be on the road again tomorrow afternoon fingers crossed