Bitter sweet
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:04 pm
As some of you know last week my GTR sprang a leak, well more of a jet stream. It happened just as I cruised past my front door because the little fella's always run up the road after me and they were all waving there arms saying "LOOK LOOK!!".. so lucky for me I just rolled into my garage.
This happened 2 days after it had starting smoking on idle so I thought this is bad
I called Leigh (scoobyandscrappy) to come and have a look before I called Ron. leigh came over and said "hmmmm thats throwing oil out under pressure I think it is probably your rear main oil seal"....Doh!! I mentioned the smoke to him and he said it could be crankcase issues or turbo. I assumed the worst and called Ron to sort out getting it down to his workshop.
Leigh 'Greenflagged' it down there this morning and I went along with him, it felt like the last rights were being bestowed on her and I had to be there :-D We dropped it off and I explained to ron as best I could the smoke and oil leak and he sucked in through his teeth and said very little .......at half two this afternoon came the call...............................................
"bad news I'm afraid Dan"......here we go....."you have 2 problems"...its getting better!!
It turns out that I had blown the rear main seal so that was replaced by the time he had called. I thought the next bad news was the one I feared about bottom end issues but the smoke was nothing to do with the engine..........I have blown the turbo, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. As it had only been smoking for 2 days and coupled with the leak I had not sucked anything into the engine because I had not driven it :-D
So I'll have the turbo rebuilt and be back on the road in a week or so :twisted:
This happened 2 days after it had starting smoking on idle so I thought this is bad
I called Leigh (scoobyandscrappy) to come and have a look before I called Ron. leigh came over and said "hmmmm thats throwing oil out under pressure I think it is probably your rear main oil seal"....Doh!! I mentioned the smoke to him and he said it could be crankcase issues or turbo. I assumed the worst and called Ron to sort out getting it down to his workshop. Leigh 'Greenflagged' it down there this morning and I went along with him, it felt like the last rights were being bestowed on her and I had to be there :-D We dropped it off and I explained to ron as best I could the smoke and oil leak and he sucked in through his teeth and said very little
.......at half two this afternoon came the call..............................................."bad news I'm afraid Dan"......here we go....."you have 2 problems"...its getting better!!
It turns out that I had blown the rear main seal so that was replaced by the time he had called. I thought the next bad news was the one I feared about bottom end issues but the smoke was nothing to do with the engine..........I have blown the turbo, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. As it had only been smoking for 2 days and coupled with the leak I had not sucked anything into the engine because I had not driven it :-D
So I'll have the turbo rebuilt and be back on the road in a week or so :twisted:
