View Single Post
Old 03-18-2006   #3
iceminion
 
iceminion's Avatar
 

Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Maple Grove
Posts: 956
Send a message via AIM to iceminion
Re: Need A Dry Place

Ok, this is fun.

Symptoms: A BONE STOCK 1990 Laser RT with the oil pan gasket leaking, timing off?, no longer boosting?

So LingLing dropped the car off and we didnt get to work on it till friday, he DROVE it into my garage......

Oil was plastered everywhere on the timing side of the engine bay (and the timing belt was heavily coated (pooling of oil on the belt) in oil.

Ok, so i started to wipe the timing belt off and the belt ALMOST FELL OFF THE CAM GEARS.....it was that loose

there was 6QTS of oil in the car

the low oil light sensor was unplugged

the "halo" of throttle/cruise control cables that normally takes up the top of the engine bay was not there, when whoever put the new head, the cables where UNDER THE INTAKE MANIFOIL AAAANNNNDDDD ABOVE THE INTAKE MANIFOLD BRACKET, so it was COMPLETELY STUCK. so I asked if the gas pedal flet funny and sure enough, the pedal had a tendency to stick completely to the floor.

Oh hey! look! the BOV is mounted BACKWARDS and the pipe to the 1G intake is blocked off.

the 90 oil cooler lines were PINCHED CLOSED there was NO WAY oil was going through the cooler (due to some offroading? bad placement of the lines mitsubishi)

ok, so the turbo worked fine and it all of a sudden stopped....thats alot of play in that 14b.....hmmmm....WFT.....WHY IS THE OIL FEED LINE FOR THE TURBO NOT CONNECTED TO ANYTHING?!?!?!???!??!....oh wow, someone plugged the hole coming out of the head but didnt bother to connect the turbo......I ASSUME the turbo is dead.

but the ecu is fine
iceminion is offline   Reply With Quote