Bad news...tonight I find out what happened.
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Bad news...tonight I find out what happened.
I have been fighting a high rpm issue for years so late last week I swapped out the stock opti (which was completely destroyed internally) with an Accel unit and get my t-brake hooked up.
So Saturday I am buttoning the car up...fire it up to start bleeding the coolant system. The car was on jack stands in the front and I knew that my vacuum pump had pulled some oil.
I took a look at the gauges for the first minute when I fired up the car and everything looked fine, but after 10 minutes of idling the motor seized.
The only thing I can think it being is an oil pump shaft broke or I simply ran the motor out of oil.
So tonight I pull the engine and see what happened and the extent of the damage...which I am hoping is just a crank turning and bearings.
If this happened this time next year, I would be ok with it because I would be getting ready for my twin turbo on, but I plan on running the car for a season learning the F.A.S.T. system.
I am kicking myself in the **** if it was something as simple as checking oil...if that is it, I will just have to remember that putting vacuum pump and the reservoir in the wrong direction is a no no.
Well, at least I can fix a few things that I did not like.
So Saturday I am buttoning the car up...fire it up to start bleeding the coolant system. The car was on jack stands in the front and I knew that my vacuum pump had pulled some oil.
I took a look at the gauges for the first minute when I fired up the car and everything looked fine, but after 10 minutes of idling the motor seized.
The only thing I can think it being is an oil pump shaft broke or I simply ran the motor out of oil.
So tonight I pull the engine and see what happened and the extent of the damage...which I am hoping is just a crank turning and bearings.
If this happened this time next year, I would be ok with it because I would be getting ready for my twin turbo on, but I plan on running the car for a season learning the F.A.S.T. system.
I am kicking myself in the **** if it was something as simple as checking oil...if that is it, I will just have to remember that putting vacuum pump and the reservoir in the wrong direction is a no no.
Well, at least I can fix a few things that I did not like.
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Ends up the motor was not seized...the CSR starter seized so hard it stopped me from turning the motor with everything I had.
Pulled it out and presto...motors turns by hand just fine.
Pulled it out and presto...motors turns by hand just fine.
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