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Hey everyone, This is mostly a rant/story piece about my dead horse of a car, I do need an answer to a serious question however. I was driving with my friend in Shenandoah mountains planning to spend the day there, draw some scenery, take a hike maybe. I had finally reached the crest of the mountain and decided to pull off into an over look to sit and look at the scenery. When I had parked and ate my lunch, I decided to check the oil before we took off as the engine consumes quite a bit oil when scaling large inclines. When I checked I noticed a puddle of dirty coolant had gushed itself from the engine, how long it had been leaking was anyone's guess. I waited for the engine to cool and discovered that the radiator was just about out of coolant, knowing that something like this was bound to happen with a half dead five-hundred dollar old is gold American family perennial car, I had packed 2 gallons of coolant with me when I first bought it. I refilled and burped the radiator, closed the hood just enough to let air ram thru into the engine bay and left to find a ranger station, mostly in hopes that they would let me use their garage, they laughed and told me and my half dead horse to get the gently caress off their mountain. Thankfully the drive was mostly downhill so I could keep the engine off and coast until the main roads. We listed into the town of Luray and grabbed a burger, hit up an autozone to stock up on resources and refilled the radiator, we set off to the main route and had to stop every 6 miles to cool down the engine and refill the radiator. One hundred fifteen miles we had to do this process, all the way until home. I have reason to believe that the gaskets in the water-pump shat themselves while scaling the mountains, it could be a hose too maybe. There is a lot of wetness in the front and around the fan. Could anyone give me hint? 1988 Mercury colony park 302 (5,0) BambiPowerBottom fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Nov 13, 2017 |
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Nov 13, 2017 21:34
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Water pump is probably dead, hopefully you didn't pop the headgasket on the way home.
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Nov 13, 2017 21:47
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BlackMK4 posted:Water pump is probably dead, hopefully you didn't pop the headgasket on the way home. Kept checking the oil everytime we stopped to see if they popped as well, so far the oil is still clean. Won't be surprised if I warped the heads a little
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Nov 13, 2017 21:51
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Going to need pics of this colon park. For reasons.
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Nov 14, 2017 00:24
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kastein posted:Going to need pics of this colon park. For reasons. Nice try EPA <3 <3 <3 
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Nov 14, 2017 02:02
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When you're leaking coolant just use water, it doesn't dump coolant on the ground and you're not wasting money on coolant.
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Nov 14, 2017 02:17
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BambiPowerBottom posted:Nice try EPA <3 <3 <3 I am bound by blood oath to show my wife pictures of every single wagon (bonus for woodgrain) and dog I hear about on the internet, ok
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Nov 14, 2017 04:12
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kastein posted:I am bound by blood oath to show my wife pictures of every single wagon (bonus for woodgrain) and dog I hear about on the internet, ok You married well. E: VVV more pictures you dick cursedshitbox fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Nov 14, 2017 |
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Nov 14, 2017 04:21
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@kastein Here it be baby https://instagram.com/p/BbUyG0lDwHz/
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Nov 14, 2017 04:21
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cursedshitbox posted:You married well. :C words hurt Mr. Man, you hurt my feelings. Anyways he can roll thru my instagram, its all i got right now. Ill post more in the morning https://instagram.com/p/BZNGoyljk-R/ https://instagram.com/p/BXD9t8kjCS8/ https://instagram.com/p/BZkGVa6jJTk/ BambiPowerBottom fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Nov 14, 2017 |
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Nov 14, 2017 04:32
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A water pump for that is like $25 i'd throw one on there and see what happens
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Nov 14, 2017 23:23
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everdave posted:A water pump for that is like $25 i'd throw one on there and see what happens started the teardown, goddamn coolant sprayed everywhere, found a nice big puddle under the battery this afternoon. Can't seem to find the drat tensioner anywhere though
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