Gyrhead
05-26-2012, 12:10 PM
First off, thanks Pat and others for this website. Great to see you guys after a long hiatus on my part. Some of you might have read of my epic 6 year journey in the other place.
Well, I just got the Bolo 86 2R from the body shop last Friday after a complete resto including new quarters, fenders, hood and door skins along with new paint. I'm pretty happy and after 7 years of waiting, I was finally glad to have been able to scrape up the money to get this done. I re-painted all the interior parts with SEM and reflocked my fuzzy dash parts while the car was in the shop and when I got it back, I Dynomatted the entire steel unibody interior, and reinstalled the interior with new carpets and a DD 2nd gen dash (a fair piece, not great, but for a driver it'll do). By Sun it was all back together and looking great.
My mom broke her hip 3 weeks ago and has been in a local rehab hospital so I took the car to visit her. Things were great. Ran good, plenty of power and best of all, it looked new. No more laughs from co-workers about what a POS I was driving.
On my way home, I decided to take the interstate and while merging onto the ramp, the car started bucking hard under moderate (10-12 psi) boost, right out of the blue. It ran fine while lightly into the boost. I backed off and checked my gauges and all looked ok. I figured the temporary pigtail I wired on the fuel pressure vacuum switch came off.
Gradually the bucking became more pronounced until the car was barely drivable with any boost. Then when I looked out the back, I was laying a trail of blue smoke on vacuum when I backed off the gas. Shortly thereafter, I was unable to make any boost at all and the car a was way down on power and the oil cloud became more severe. Kind of like mosquito fogging. The car still ran at idle, but was way down on power with no boost at all and an occasional backfire when I let off. I still had plenty of oil pressure and the car idled smoothly at stops.
Finally in the process of driving it home, The oil cloud became worse and worse, ultimately leading to almost 100% depletion of the oil pan's contents. I basically barely made it home but still had oil pressure, yet I digress. Yes it was risky, but I made it without apparently harming the engine (more).
What say you guys? I suspect gradual turbo failure leading to exhaust side seal failure and the pouring of oil directly into the exhaust. The motor is not seized and the car will start and run and idle ok, despite being a bit smoky. I was in an Advanced Heavy Rescue class all week at the Fire Academy and had no time to look at it, but a compression test on all 4 is in order. BTW, no oil in the antifreeze or antifreeze in the crankcase, so head gasket at first blush is probably OK, but that still needs to be confirmed.
Basically a bummer!http://www.svoca.com/forum/images/smilies/angry.gif
Well, I just got the Bolo 86 2R from the body shop last Friday after a complete resto including new quarters, fenders, hood and door skins along with new paint. I'm pretty happy and after 7 years of waiting, I was finally glad to have been able to scrape up the money to get this done. I re-painted all the interior parts with SEM and reflocked my fuzzy dash parts while the car was in the shop and when I got it back, I Dynomatted the entire steel unibody interior, and reinstalled the interior with new carpets and a DD 2nd gen dash (a fair piece, not great, but for a driver it'll do). By Sun it was all back together and looking great.
My mom broke her hip 3 weeks ago and has been in a local rehab hospital so I took the car to visit her. Things were great. Ran good, plenty of power and best of all, it looked new. No more laughs from co-workers about what a POS I was driving.
On my way home, I decided to take the interstate and while merging onto the ramp, the car started bucking hard under moderate (10-12 psi) boost, right out of the blue. It ran fine while lightly into the boost. I backed off and checked my gauges and all looked ok. I figured the temporary pigtail I wired on the fuel pressure vacuum switch came off.
Gradually the bucking became more pronounced until the car was barely drivable with any boost. Then when I looked out the back, I was laying a trail of blue smoke on vacuum when I backed off the gas. Shortly thereafter, I was unable to make any boost at all and the car a was way down on power and the oil cloud became more severe. Kind of like mosquito fogging. The car still ran at idle, but was way down on power with no boost at all and an occasional backfire when I let off. I still had plenty of oil pressure and the car idled smoothly at stops.
Finally in the process of driving it home, The oil cloud became worse and worse, ultimately leading to almost 100% depletion of the oil pan's contents. I basically barely made it home but still had oil pressure, yet I digress. Yes it was risky, but I made it without apparently harming the engine (more).
What say you guys? I suspect gradual turbo failure leading to exhaust side seal failure and the pouring of oil directly into the exhaust. The motor is not seized and the car will start and run and idle ok, despite being a bit smoky. I was in an Advanced Heavy Rescue class all week at the Fire Academy and had no time to look at it, but a compression test on all 4 is in order. BTW, no oil in the antifreeze or antifreeze in the crankcase, so head gasket at first blush is probably OK, but that still needs to be confirmed.
Basically a bummer!http://www.svoca.com/forum/images/smilies/angry.gif