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For entertainment only. Don't try this at home.
1. plastic radiators are stupid. A hairline crack was discovered at one of the fan housing mounting brackets. This appears to be point of high evaporation, as opposed to a liquid leak. Similar to an intercooler leak, which I thought was my only coolant issue (since the heater bypass valve).
2. Fast hardening plastic epoxy works great for repairing dumb plastic radiators...for as long as one minute. Fails with a pop.
3. Water temp sensors don't sense water temp when there's none to sense. The gauge never went even close to the 10:00 position. What good is that?
4. Severely rusted exhaust bolts are pretty much a non-starter for roadside removal of oil pan. Unsafe plan anyway. Too many jacks. Not enough jack stands. Too much time in someone else's parking lot. Could only result in more trouble. It was raining anyway.
5. If the head gasket wasn't blown before, it certainly is now.
6. Apparent high temps (#3) turn oil trap contents to concrete. Actually, the orifice to the small tube to the throttle was plugged with very hard deposits.
7. Don't fool yourself to think that just because you solved #6 that might have eliminated the oil light after 2 mile syndrome.
8. If you ignore #7 and drive 2 miles, see the oil light, turn off car, wait 5 minutes, turn car on again, light off, drive one mile, light on, turn off, wait five minutes, turn on WAIT....about two plugs fire, the rest are probably blowing bubbles! Wait twenty minutes. Starts right up, sorta. Just a little steam is pouring steadily out of the tail pipe. There was none before. The whole smoking thing had stopped with the clearing of the oil trap clog.
9. Geico policy includes tow for breakdown too. Wish I had thought of that back at #1.
10. head gaskets are not in stock anywhere (maybe at the dealer, I hope).
11. That 1/4 cup of oil in the throttle intake hose is probably unnecessary.
I'm going to be really ticked off if that oil screen is not clogged. I will have pretty much destroyed my crappy exhaust system to get to it.
Things to do:
intercooler leak, head gasket, clean oil screen, replace all exhaust. There's more too, isn't there? Turbo too?
My previous saab was a '92 9000T. Before that was an '84 900. Before that was a model 96. It's been all downhill since the 900. I hate seeing all the GM label parts on my 9-5. Bloody knuckles. My real driver is a 2002 Honda Insight. Fingers crossed !
All in good fun, All true.
posted by 24.218.14...
, Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:27:45
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