ahhhhh good old stress
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- Gucci
Last night as i was driving home, i started to hear a little noise emanating from the exhaust system of my car. I thought little of it other than "oh crap, I'm going to have to fix the exhaust... great". No easy task on my vehicle.
It then started to putter when I was coming to a stop... I revved the engine to keep it going; being stranded at ANY time of the day isn't fun, I've been stranded before. I didn't care to revisit the experience.
I got home and thought, hmm.... I think I'm going to have to take care of this sooner than i first thought.
Enter this morning: I get in my car, and remember the all too familiar puttering sound. "grrrr" I thought but soldiered on nonetheless.
I continued along, got to the onramp of the highway on my way to work and began to accelerate to get to speed with traffic. The sights and sounds of a relatively quiet Gardiner Expressway were soon cut through by a loud gunshot... nay........... not a gunshot....... my car.
The rush of air funneling through the manifold was apparently too much for the newly fragile piece of equipment. The car let out a thunderous BANG, sending reverberation and debris hurtling towards the car behind me. It laboured to get up to 80 km/h before starting to heave like an 80 year old woman after a 1k sprint walkathon.
The Filipino family driving behind me looked on expectantly and in disbelief at my vehicle like I should be wearing gang colours or toting a semi-automatic Smith & Wesson...
After realizing I wasn't dead (and, subsequently, that the Filipino family weren't Dodge Caravan owning angels) I kept driving at the torrent pace of 75 km/h on the highway, only... with the distinct sound of a Harley Davidson Limited Edition Classic Chopper traveling at 250 km/h.
Arriving safely at work, I now face the dubious task of getting home without damaging the eardrums of more unsuspecting Filipino's.
I thank you for your time.
- kld0
duct tape is your friend
- Gucci0
alas, duct tape will do no good. I'd use a popcan and a hanger if I thought it would work....
- ********0
is it your muffler?
it will burn through a hanger in a few days if you're trying to tie it up. get some thicker wire that can withstand heat for the time being.
in a pinch when we were younger we'd take a soup can, cut it down the center, cut off the ends and wrap it around the hole in the muffler and weld it on. haha. we were broke.
- Gucci0
nope. judging by the you-just-destroyed-your-car sound, it was the manifold that got a ferret sized hole blown through it.
- ********0
why is it I alawys think it's gonna' be kingjulien?
- ********0
ah a hole in the manifold? hopefully you just blew a gasket.
they are only a couple bucks (if you know enough about engines to fix yourself). at a shop it could run you a couple hundred to replace.
damn dude. sorry.
- Gucci0
yep. i actually work at my dad's shop on the weekends, so i can do it myself.
I just hate that I have to spend all of saturday fixin it up...not to mention buying the part (if it IS the manifold).
the car's a purple peice of shit anyway. c'est la vie.
- ********0
does it sound like it's sucking air?
your car has gone from blow to suck. haha. sounds sexy.
- _lp0
If it's just a gasket, 20 to 60$ (CAN) will do the job. but of course, time to do it yourself, the right tools, and some gasket glue... Adding the fact that you might break a few bolts if the car is old...
The best part is, you might discover it is not really that, so you would have done the job for nothing.
a hole in the manifold... don't count on that, if it did, the whole engine would have broke down big time...
- emokid0
i enjoyed this story.
it read like a nice thriller where you want to know what happens next--did the car really blow up killing the giant army of skullsucking alien robots, you think to yourself.