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
well that sucks for him!!! i've got one for ya... this guy was totally piss drunk driving around in one of those 3x3 argo's... thing is running low on gas.. so he fills it up.. but wait... he put gas in the OIL CAP!!! filled it right to the top!!! :lol:
we managed to drain the oil and put fresh oil... it would start and run without the foam air filter, but put it back on.. and no go. so cleaned it out with gasoline and a lot of crap came out (black-all the sludge from the motor) and everytime we turned it off, there would be a pause... then a loud POP out the exhaust :lol: good times!
i'm wondering how the hell his clutch didn't slip??? :shock: :lol:
I had a similar event in my grade 12 mechanics class.
We love it when the ladies take a stab at a greasy guy type task but sometimes you can't help but laugh.
there were three of us working on some piece of junk one of the students had and we asked the gal to fill er up with the oil we just bought for it when we were done what we were doing (probably just an oil change).
My friend and I go off to do something else thinking she would finish that and do her own thing (we all had individual projects on the go so we were in the welding corner)
we come back about 15 minutes later and she's still bent over under the hood... curious? how could that have taken so long?
"Whatchya still up to?"
"oh, just filling up the oil like you said..." she replied cheerily
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"That's ... the dip stick hole...." my friend points out
"that it is, that ... it ... is ..." i reply
at least she used a funnel so we had to feel some sympathy. We kindly informed her of where to fill oil and chuckled to our selves later. she laughed at the time at her self but we didn't want her to think we were looking down on her so we just said something along the lines of "yupp, there's lots of tricky stuff you have to learn with these darn things"
Edit: now that i really think about it... i believe it was someone's mother doing this in the shop for her son/daughter - she bought the oil for him/her so that's why she was there (and that's why we were so polite.)
Any high school mechanics shop will be riddled with hilarious stories.
just to name a few i've heard/seen...
windshield washer fluid in the oil
brake fluid in the oil
oil in the brake fluid (that was a big pain to fix)
washer fluid in the power steering