ZackieDarko
11-18-2005, 04:39 AM
ok my 3g'ers i need help!
yesterday when i came home from work at 5am i thought i smelt some anit-freeze. i thought that was odd so i went to investigate. when i got out of the car i saw what i tought was some fluid left on the ground by my car when i parked and i checked and it was indeed coolent. when i poped the hood a wee bit of "smoke" rose up out of the engine bay. i thought to my self this cant be good. since it was 5am and i was uber tired i decided to deal with it later and went to bed. so tonight when i got to work at 10:30pm i noticed some "smoke" coming out from under my hood and my temp guage was at the half way mark so again i thought to my self that there must be a coolent leak some where. so i poped the hood again and there was wetness. from what i could see in the darkness there was liquid driping down from a hose (i think it was dark) right under the distributer cap. it looked like some of the fluid got onto the cap its self and the wires but nothing else. when i left work at 3:30am i filled up my 1 liter of Dew with water and put it in the radiator to get me home. half way home the car did something that it had never done. it started to "shudder" i guess is the word ...it kinda boged out and shudderd at the same time ..when i pressed on the gas the rpm's would slowly go up and i would slowly gain speed but it would just shake really hard. so i pulled over and poped the hood and there was liquid EVERYWHERE under there..on the cap on the battery on that box under the hood next to the firewall on the passenger side everywhere ...
if you made it this far THANK YOU SO MUCH
after seeing this i thought oh man i am so SOL ya know? so i called somebody to come get me..while i was waiting i started the car a few times to see if the problem would jsut go away and if so i could just limp home and deal with it in the morning..the problem never went away..about 25 minuets after i pulled over i tryed 1 last time when my ride got there and it seemed to do what it was doing but a little less..like it wasnt as bad but it was still there
::::SIDE NOTE::::
i am gonna feel UBER FRICKIN STUPID if this is the problem but my fuel guage was reading near empty at the time that all this happend, i dont know if that is my problem or if its related or not but i thought i'd throw that in there
if you read this whole thing i thank you very very much i would appriciate any help any of you can give me as this is my baby and my only way to get around THANK YOU SO MUCH:)
yesterday when i came home from work at 5am i thought i smelt some anit-freeze. i thought that was odd so i went to investigate. when i got out of the car i saw what i tought was some fluid left on the ground by my car when i parked and i checked and it was indeed coolent. when i poped the hood a wee bit of "smoke" rose up out of the engine bay. i thought to my self this cant be good. since it was 5am and i was uber tired i decided to deal with it later and went to bed. so tonight when i got to work at 10:30pm i noticed some "smoke" coming out from under my hood and my temp guage was at the half way mark so again i thought to my self that there must be a coolent leak some where. so i poped the hood again and there was wetness. from what i could see in the darkness there was liquid driping down from a hose (i think it was dark) right under the distributer cap. it looked like some of the fluid got onto the cap its self and the wires but nothing else. when i left work at 3:30am i filled up my 1 liter of Dew with water and put it in the radiator to get me home. half way home the car did something that it had never done. it started to "shudder" i guess is the word ...it kinda boged out and shudderd at the same time ..when i pressed on the gas the rpm's would slowly go up and i would slowly gain speed but it would just shake really hard. so i pulled over and poped the hood and there was liquid EVERYWHERE under there..on the cap on the battery on that box under the hood next to the firewall on the passenger side everywhere ...
if you made it this far THANK YOU SO MUCH
after seeing this i thought oh man i am so SOL ya know? so i called somebody to come get me..while i was waiting i started the car a few times to see if the problem would jsut go away and if so i could just limp home and deal with it in the morning..the problem never went away..about 25 minuets after i pulled over i tryed 1 last time when my ride got there and it seemed to do what it was doing but a little less..like it wasnt as bad but it was still there
::::SIDE NOTE::::
i am gonna feel UBER FRICKIN STUPID if this is the problem but my fuel guage was reading near empty at the time that all this happend, i dont know if that is my problem or if its related or not but i thought i'd throw that in there
if you read this whole thing i thank you very very much i would appriciate any help any of you can give me as this is my baby and my only way to get around THANK YOU SO MUCH:)