Hey guys. Picked up a 150k mile supercoupe last tuesday with a strong motor, great trans and all electrics in working order. The car lasted around 800 miles before the motor took a catastrophic turn for the worse and began to knock.
Was sat behind a tractor on country lanes doing around 20mph, the car felt like it was stuck in second gear. Shuddering, not very happy doing those speeds. I put this down to it being powered by a six, slowed down to 15 and it dropped to first gear. The car felt much healthier doing the slightly higher rpm. 5 mins later rhe shuddering returned and along came a horendous screaching noise. I pulled it to neutral and pulled to the side of the road to investigate. The car began to knock at idle and felt like it had lost a cylinder. It is jumpy, shudders at idle, and knocks like crazy.
There is also smoke from the oil fill cap.
Something on the inside is not happy and has promptly gone on strike.
I have no clue how to go about the repair. Have never taken a motor out and am currently doing my night shift gutted about the fact i have just blown the motor on a great car to drive.
Any help i can get would be massively appreciated, anyone who has built an engine, dropped on out or experienced the same symptoms please chime in! Id love to gett back to driving it
Neill
Was sat behind a tractor on country lanes doing around 20mph, the car felt like it was stuck in second gear. Shuddering, not very happy doing those speeds. I put this down to it being powered by a six, slowed down to 15 and it dropped to first gear. The car felt much healthier doing the slightly higher rpm. 5 mins later rhe shuddering returned and along came a horendous screaching noise. I pulled it to neutral and pulled to the side of the road to investigate. The car began to knock at idle and felt like it had lost a cylinder. It is jumpy, shudders at idle, and knocks like crazy.
There is also smoke from the oil fill cap.
Something on the inside is not happy and has promptly gone on strike.
I have no clue how to go about the repair. Have never taken a motor out and am currently doing my night shift gutted about the fact i have just blown the motor on a great car to drive.
Any help i can get would be massively appreciated, anyone who has built an engine, dropped on out or experienced the same symptoms please chime in! Id love to gett back to driving it
Neill