What Happened??!?! (Long)
After a long drive home Saturday night, my wife and I decided to go to a parking lot where i would show her how to drive a manual. As your typical newbie, she was very rough getting out of first and stalled a few times. After about 15 minutes of my clutch taking a beating she felt comfortable enough to drive home, about 3 minutes away. Here's where shit happens...
As we pull out of the parking lot, i hear a POP!! Then followed by what sounded like a loud air leak. Immediately, vapor/steam started coming out of all the vents and it fogged up the windshield. My wife by now stopped the car and we both get out. As this is going on, i also see a liquid streaming out from beneath the car. I decide to take a look and saw what seemed like water pouring out of the mid section of the car. I let the car sit there for a moment as my brain processed what the hell happened.
I get back in the car and noticed all the carpeting, drivers side only, was soaking wet. I also noticed the temp sensor all the way HOT. I was about to call a tow truck thinking she was toast but decided to try and start her up before doing that. She started right up. But again that temp sensor was really hot so my guess is that the engine overheated or something.
Since i was a few minutes away from home i decided to drive home...really slow. I had to stop twice when i saw the vents start putting out steam/vapor which got me nervous.
Now she's home and waiting for someone to get back to me to have them take a look. She still starts right up and today i let the engine run for a while to see if it would start to overheat. It did. It reached the 3/4 mark before i shut her off. The puller fan i have in there must have a short because it didnt turn on. I imagine it wasnt working that night when all this happened either.
I tried to describe as best I could remember what i saw and heard that night. With that said, does anyone know what damage i may have done? And how screwed i really am?
Sorry for the long post. And thanks in advance.
As we pull out of the parking lot, i hear a POP!! Then followed by what sounded like a loud air leak. Immediately, vapor/steam started coming out of all the vents and it fogged up the windshield. My wife by now stopped the car and we both get out. As this is going on, i also see a liquid streaming out from beneath the car. I decide to take a look and saw what seemed like water pouring out of the mid section of the car. I let the car sit there for a moment as my brain processed what the hell happened.
I get back in the car and noticed all the carpeting, drivers side only, was soaking wet. I also noticed the temp sensor all the way HOT. I was about to call a tow truck thinking she was toast but decided to try and start her up before doing that. She started right up. But again that temp sensor was really hot so my guess is that the engine overheated or something.
Since i was a few minutes away from home i decided to drive home...really slow. I had to stop twice when i saw the vents start putting out steam/vapor which got me nervous.
Now she's home and waiting for someone to get back to me to have them take a look. She still starts right up and today i let the engine run for a while to see if it would start to overheat. It did. It reached the 3/4 mark before i shut her off. The puller fan i have in there must have a short because it didnt turn on. I imagine it wasnt working that night when all this happened either.
I tried to describe as best I could remember what i saw and heard that night. With that said, does anyone know what damage i may have done? And how screwed i really am?
Sorry for the long post. And thanks in advance.
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