Picked up a 94 TD golf on the weekend for $500 with minor subframe damage underneath the car, so my brother and I go to look at this car on saturday hoping that there isn't too much rust as it is an Alberta vehicle. We get there and the guy already previously told me on the phone that he was on the highway traveling to B.C at night. I think he said he was on the coke and he was doin about 110km an hour when all of a sudden on the highway right in front of him was a very large receiver hitch (One that adjusts for verticle as well and it must have weighed about 50lbs of solid iron) that must have fallen off a truck up ahead. Well there wasn't enough time to react and he hit it dead on the driver's side contol arm and the front side of the tranny. :shock: It crunched the lower control arm back about 1" and punched a hole in the trans main case (5spd) and it got jammed under the front of the car. He did however manage to limp it to a parts store and purchase some JB weld and about 2 gallons of gear oil. He squished the JB weld into the hole and managed to stop the leak.He drove the car for 5 hours and kept adding gear oil to the tranny because it was still leaking out of the main case at the JB welded area. He said it got to a point where he couldnt get the tranny to shift into 5th gear anymore so he just kept goin, then it got to a point where he had to push on the shifter a little to hold it in 4th or it would pop out of gear... well he made it to his B.C destination just barely....when I finished looking over the car and had decided to purchase it for $500 bucks (LOL), we loaded her up on the car trailer and I brought home my new addition to my family , I would compare this feeling to a mother bringing a new born baby home for the first time (LOL). Anyway the next morning I get up and am sooo exited to see my new baby in the driveway (LOL) so my brother and I go out to her and have to assess the damage underneath. It won't be a difficult fix goin to pull the motor and trans, go to the local autowrecker buy another 2 piece subframe for under $50 bucks with the control arms and swap everything back in (I have already a spare 95 1.9 5spd (LOL). so to make a long story even funnier when my brother and I were looking under the hood at the damage to the transmission and just the good condition of everything, a question came into my mind :shock: :shock: :shock: where was the driver of the golf adding the gear oil
I did not see any bolts that were removed from the speedo cable or the bungs to fill the oil level back up, but I did see alot of oil residue around the timing alignment marker plug :oops: :oops: :oops: (AKA THE GREEN PLUG) LOL LOL LOL :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: I kid you not....he was filling the clutch up with oil :shock: :shock: :shock: I could not stop laughing , no wonder when I crawled under the front I saw oil dripping from the tin sheild (inspection cover ) when we saw this we both started laughing for at least 5 minutes , tears and all (LOL). well I guess it kind of looks like an oil filler plug ? :oops: I felt kinda bad for the guy really I mean he is lucky he didnt kill himself hitting that chunk of iron on the roadway at night, can you just imagine what that would have felt like hitting that at 110km an hour. I dont know about you guy's but I think I would have *** my pants (LOL) :oops:
Dan
Topic: Just when I thought I have seen it all !!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Read 3679 times)
