I hate cars!

[sharpshooter33 at adelphia.net (David Brown)]

Hey big T,
Until it went south everything looked good in the oil and coolant...  Good 
point and I kinda suspected same at 1st, I'll check these 2 things tomorrow 
since there easy and I can do them before work.  I was also going to do a 
compression test, but I'd decided that it must be electrical.  I was 
figuring that a head gasket would go slowly so I had kinda ruled that out. 
Good point though and I'll check and report in tomorrow.

Thanks
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T Berk" <bayareaberk@yahoo.com>
To: "scirocco scirocco" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: I hate cars!


> --- David Brown <sharpshooter33@adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>> Ok so I get my Jetta finally running last week.
> <snip>
>> I'm on my way home from work and bang!!! The jetta
>> starts running like shit!  Acts like it's missing
>> real bad and when I stop at lights it kinda sounds
>> like a modified race car with a bad lope at
>> idle....a pulsing kinda idle just barely keeping
>> running.  I'm thinking it's some type electrical...
>> O2 sensor or something.  I was getting white smoke
>> as I backed into the garage and it smelled of
>> flooding.
>>
>
> OK, wait right there. Is is smelling of unburnt GAS?
> Or is it smelling a sticky sweet glycol type sugary
> stuff, as in coolant mixture?
>
> The reason I ask is you describe common symptoms of a
> head gasket going south and letting coolant into the
> combustion chambers.
>
>> I hate cars! Just when you start to enjoy driving
>> one they get the "Feed me and pamper me some more
>> attitude".
>>
>> Oh well at least I'm off tomorrow and I can work on
>> it some.  It's not getting the new lighting harness
>> though.... Teach it to act up on me... 8-)
>>
>> David
>
> Pull your plugs in turn and report back with what they
> look like. Also look in the (cool) coolant and see if
> it has A. a sludgy foam type oil scum floating on top
> and/or B. has been disappeared with no apparent
> reason.
>
>
> TBerk
>
>
>
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