bottom end bummer!!!

[dwn_boi]

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!!!

[Mitchman]

I would have had to change my short if i heard that from my car now after everything lol... oh i would have been scared.. iv learned now if you hear something bad just stop the car and dont drive it again, get it towed somewhere unless its just a nail in your tyre :-p

[SXC-84K]

hey sup nikki long time! lolz yeh thats happening to my gfs car atm but yeh she still drives it :S oh wells

[dwn_boi]

lol well i'm just glad he was able to fix it!!

i shouldnt have driven on it but all i wanted to do was get home!!

lol i'm sure it didnt help either that the boys i was with where revving my engine to try and find out what the problem was!! >_<"

if your cars ever in trouble lol definantly just leave it alone and get her towed to hanny's lol!!!

[J2daW]

hey my crankshaft pulley warped one day and i ended up with it sounding like it was supercharged!! cost me heaps to fix it coz the mechanic had to drill out the pulley bolt and grind in a new thread...

[dwn_boi]

hey my crankshaft pulley warped one day and i ended up with it sounding like it was supercharged!! cost me heaps to fix it coz the mechanic had to drill out the pulley bolt and grind in a new thread...

ha ha supercharged? damn mine jst sounde like a fatt tractor r sumthing, lol how shame full driving down the street with custom plates and ur car buCkLed like a mower hahaha shiiit!!

where did he have to oull out the bolt from? lol mine jst fll from underneathe the car, it was one of the many **cLUnKS** i heard that night haha aw pOor girl

but yaa my mechanic pulld out something, think it was the pully, and put like a putty on it and re did the thread too.

not happy with this cars set up in the engine bay, he re did my power steerin pump, but when he ws removing it, turns out sumones been there befrore, black paint around the nozzel and the freakin bolt wasnt even tight!!!!! loOse and jiggling!! hmm some people need to stay the hell away from cars!!!!

[dwn_boi]

here are some pics!






thats the pully that came loose, note the damage at the top which was done from that key thing coming loose!

[kn1ghtm4r3]

god damn lol =/

[aaronng]

Looks more like the bit from the pulley failed and hence released the key.

[xntrik]

ouch. ):

[FEL12X]

happen to my EG si before as well..but lucky u just damage the pully..

[aaronng]

I'm quite worried that this happens to a stock pulley/key that probably hasn't been removed or touched by a mech before.

So is your car all fixed and back on the road yet?