oMfg!!!!
last night i went out to Bondi with my cousin and on the way i could hear a unusal tapping noise, you could barely hear it at all. by the time i got to bondi the noise was getting worse, but i thought i'd just leave it to the morning and drive her to hanny's (46km from my house)
anyway when i got back to my car after shopping i started her up and my God did the noise jump from bad to excruciatingly painful!! i feel her pain!!
i dropped my cous off home and we checke the engine again and the noise was like a very loud knocking, sounded bottom end coz could hear perfectly from wheel arch.
was driving down randwick hill and came to a round about, went to turn wheel but wheel refused to turn!! i freaked out and pulled over to suss it out, still couldnt see anything coz in the dark so i took the risk of driving her home.
my god.... i weigh 46kg, trying to steer a freakin 1 tonne car with lil chicken arms like mine and NO power steerin aint easy!!on the way home i could hear shit falling from the engine bay, banging and clucking and oh my god i was almost in tears!!! but we made it home!
opened up the engine bay and sitting ontop of my waher jet water bottle was my drive belt!! >_<"
called up hanny's thismorning and they sed bring it down so i got a tow truck to drive my car from maroubra to smithfield lol!! (he's the only mechanic i'll ever go to!!)
turns out what had happened is on the crankshaft pully, the key inside it had somehow come loose, chewed through the pully, (i'll try upload some pics, it did a nice job!!) which in turn made the pully itself loose and it damaged inside the crank hole!!! ahHHhh
i was right, i knew it was bottom end!! luckily Peter (the mechanic there) was able to repair it with a kind of metal bog stuff and replace my belts.
omfg the feeling i had as soon as he said it was the crank, everything jst sank, i was thinking engine rebuild time >_<"
they told me that 2 other preludes theyr had in there had the same problem, has anyone on here experienced this?
i got my baby girl back a few hours later and she was running immaculatly, i hope she stays this way!!!
