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Sat Aug 21, 2004 3:15 pm
Ok, so I'm out driving about. Come out of second on boost and take the car out of gear.
Then I realize my steering is acting weird.. So I look at my guages and realize that the motor isn't running. I figure it just went rich from the BOV not blowing off quick enough and bogged out. Start it up again and keep driving.
After about 2 seconds I find it is running like sh*t. Feels like it is missing at low throttle. Seems to run fine if you give it some gas, but low throttle is rough and trouble-some. Also it won't idle. Or not very much. I had it doing a very violent hunt from about 100 rpms up to 1100 back and forth back and forth. But it dies soon after.
At this point I thought it was just one of the vacuum lines has popped off or maybe the intercooler piping got blown off. I'm about a half mile from the house so I decide to limp it home.
Pull in and pop the hood, it's dark out but I think I saw a small amount of dark smoke. Might have been nothing. Check all vacuum lines and couplers... nothing seems out of the ordinary. Take a look under the car and see a big puddle of oil. Crap. Jack the car up and look around with a jump in my chest. Not the pan or the headgasket or oil filter. Looks like the oil pressure sensor might be leaking. Grab ahold of it and it is loose enough to slowly be loosened by hand.
So I got the oil leak located I think. But I don't know why it is running so badly. I checked the oil level when I came in. It was low, but not outside the measurable area. I'm gonna have to change the oil now and tighten that sensor. I'd really like for that to be the end of it.. but something makes me doubt that.
Any thoughts on what could be the problem?
I feel sick