Re: oh no! Heard a bang...
The scan tool used in the truck is more of just a real time display than an actual scan tool. It is more of a code reader and has a dash mounted display to see what the sensors are doing at any given time. It is handy to see the different sensor readings, but unfortunately I don't think that it would be much use (though I could be wrong) for tuning and logging a run. I believe it only has the capacity to record internally 30 frames of any given sensor to memory for recall for manual logging after.
I really hope that the damage is minimal. please everyone cross fingers, toes, and pray to every god that you can think of for me. Man, this couldn't be worse for timing... And I ain't talkin about spark plugs either! Though that may have had something to do with it... OK timing is BAD all around the board!! :hissyfit: :nopity:
What kinda boggles me, though is which came first here? Since I saw a milkshake pool and the oil was full of coolant, and oil in the top inside of the rad cap if I reached in with my finger, I wonder if they both had to do with each other, or if one caused the other in the aftermath? My quick and dirty theory is that I am hypothesizing is that the head gasket blew hard in the vicinity of a cylinder, spraying coolant with all sorts of different pressures, from all different ways directly into the piston head causing maybe either hydro lock or some sort of funky detonation or misfire, or just plain badness causing the failure of catastrophic proportions to affected piston (s?). Until I rip at least the oil pan off and have a looksee I am only hoping that internal damage is minimal and repairable, not completely re-buildable and replaceable. Though the turbo had oil amongst it also. Could oil have sprayed through the intake backwards? Or maybe it would have sprayed out through the exhaust manifolds and sucked into the turbo. :barf: :dunno:
If the turbo only got sprayed and soaked with oil, do you think that it could be salvaged or would this be toast also? Come on guys... help me out here even if you think it is toast too, just lie and say "Nah it's fine! Turbo's are indestructible!!" :2gun: :myclone: :turbo:
Like I said, the truck was running absolutely fine until that moment. Just before I got to my buddies place, it was on the highway, then a back road, then parked for 1.5 hours, then started fine, fastened seat belt, drove to end of street, stopped, turned right, hit gas (not real hard, but enough that it was just starting to build boost to a max of about 5-7 psi, shifted into either second or third (can't remember) shortly after when truck was at about 60KM/h ish, poof happened. I let off immediately and the truck sputtered to a halt about 15 - 20 seconds later as I pulled over seeing puffin from under the hood and out the back. One of the sickest WTF??? feelings I have ever had. I knew it waddn't veddy guud. :doh: :steamer: :shoot:
Shoulda stayed home. :fuzz:
I guess looking on the bright side (well maybe just a dimly lit side) I could have been half way down to cali (LA) as planned at the end of the month stuck in the middle of the flatlands, miles from anywhere. That may have sucked slightly worse. :hang: :banghead: :banghead:
Ok I'm done with the smileys. :drugs:
Chris
