My car is down..again

[LinuxRacr]

Well, yesterday on my way home from work, I noticed my voltmeter giving me a low voltage warning, and hovering around 11 volts. The thought occured to me right away what was was happening. I must have broken my drive belt that goes to my altenator. I immediately shutdown the carputer, as to save some power. I was cruising along just fine, and then all of a sudden I notice that engine temp gauge needle was burried ABOVE "H". I pulled over immediately, and shut it down. What I had failed to realize was that my water pump was driven by the same belt. So I really overheated my engine. So after 3 years of running this built motor, it's not a thrown rod that has brought my MP3 down, but a mere drive belt. Dammage assessment coming soon. Thanks to Blakectx, Mental_MP3, and JDM Sam for helping me get my car off the interstate. Thanks also to my girlfriend for being there for me.

 

[ChiMSP]

Sucks some serious ass mang, good luck

 

[Kooldino]

Have you been running stock belts all this time? You gotta keep a closer eye on your stuff under the hood.

Hopefully there's no real damage to the motor.

BTW - Who's the new lady?

 

[LinuxRacr]

I would never reveal such info out here. I'm sure you understand. Yeah, the belts should have been taken better care of.

 

[LinuxRacr]

In case I didn't mention it, I need any help that can be offered. My pocket book aint what it used to be. If you have any leads on parts, or anything, let me know.

 

[AznXstazy]

is the car still ok? or is there something really bad? that sucks to hear man.

 

[LinuxRacr]

Well, the first thing we are going to do is replace the belts. After that, we will see if the compression is still fine. If not, it's headgasket time!

 

[laracroft]

We can always start a donation thread. I can give you $5.

I'm crossing my fingers for you man, so I hope all is well with your carrito. And congrats on your 'stand by your man' girlfriend. Two thumbs... way, way up.

 

[Bigg Tim]

www.onlinemazdaparts.com They have good prices any anything over $100 is free shipping. I just placed an order, I can see if he will add a belt to it to keep some cost down for you.

Damn, I just checked and it shipped today, sorry dude. It's 15 bucks for a new one, 12 on his site.

 

[tekkie]

Patrick hopefully its just the belt man, it does not sound to serious so lets hope its not

 

[MP3Architect]

In case I didn't mention it, I need any help that can be offered. My pocket book aint what it used to be. If you have any leads on parts, or anything, let me know.

if you need parts from a dealer i have $170 in mazda gift certificates. i was wanting to sell them on here as i dont think i really need them but if you need something in that price range i could get it for you and charge you less for it. maybe save you like $20 or so. just a thought


although....what do you think may have gone wrong when you went into H? because actually this past weekend my car slammed into the H on the temp gauge and im still not sure what happened or if anything is wrong...im about to start a thread about it

 

[LinuxRacr]

It was my altenator/water pump belt breaking. If the water pump doesn't turn, then the water doesn't flow.

 

[Kansei]

Yeah that'll do it. Hopefully the new belt fixes everything. I'll never worry about my belts getting old because I replace things way before they need to be out of boredom.

 

[LinuxRacr]

Well today, I finally had time to go and change all the belts out except for the timing belt. Work has just had a grip on me. I checked the radiator, but it had no coolant in it. I will go refill tomorrow, and test it out. If it overheats, and the coolant ends up missing again, I know what I have to do. Head gasket replacement!

 

[LinuxRacr]

Car is up! I went by and started it, let it warm up, listened, checked, and did the coolant procedures. All is good. I haven't checked the compression yet, but all seems good! Went for a test drive, and the car ran fine.

 

[LinuxRacr]

The car is fine. Using Moeed's compression tester, we checked all 4 clinders. 150 across the board! Went for a drive. There seems to be a boost leak though. I need to find it. I mean there is a leak from the manifold where it doesn't mate up to the head flush, but other than that. God is good. I am posting this from the car.

 

[TheMAN]

yeah... you probably warped the manifold or the flange on the head... you might be able to get away with it by retorquing the manifold

 

[nealric]

How do you like linux for your carputer?

(Im assuming based on your name your running linux)

 

[LinuxRacr]

The exhaust leak has existed for a while actually. The manifold pulled the stud out of the head yet again. As for my carputer project, I am running XP for now. I have shamed my name... (sad2)

 

[LinuxRacr]

Ok, according to Moeed, we probably didn't do the test right. The cylinders are consistant though, but I neglected to do the test at WOT while cranking. It should be good if it's 150 with the throttle closed.