RE: SD> Safe to Drive??

2005-02-28 Thread Mullikin, Stefan P
The car is relatively safe, its not going to blow up on you, but with it pinging the bottom end is taking a heck of a beating and you will shorten the life of the bearings. Is the oil in the inlet hoses for the throttle body/turbo? Remove the throttle body and look in the turbo inlet, is there oi

Re: SD> Safe to Drive??

2005-02-28 Thread Mike Fisher
I found that all out the hard way. I just drug my 85 SC out of the garage this last year after sitting for 11 years from a fire. I am not completely sure, but I imagine that either my fuel lines or worm clamps gave out since I had no idea when I was in high school that it needed to have high

Re: SD> Safe to Drive??

2005-02-28 Thread Mike Fisher
I have one quick suggestion. Do you know how much boost its running when you put your foot in it? I see you said it pings under heavy load. It could be that your wastegate solenoid is sticking and not operating the wastegate actuator and hitting overboost. I was having the same problem and