jackfolstam
Veteran Member
I was cruising down the highway at 65mph when the engine quit. Over about a second it went down to 0 RPM, it wasn't a sudden bang or shudder, it smoothly went to no power. It then came back to cruising power for a two or three seconds, and then same thing, smoothly shut down. So I turned the key off and immediately pulled over to a pull out, and then saw the coolant temp in the red. I then popped the hood and TB cover and took this pic:
There was an Mk4 Golf in the same pullout, thought maybe a homeless guy, was full of stuff and a huge roof cargo carrier. I pushed my car to the back of the pullout and checked cell service, none. He hopped out and chatted, saw my TB... We chatted about my mods, how I liked the 11mm pump, and his Kerma 130hp package, and how he had 300k miles without problems, the mods done so long ago he couldn't remember them... He lent me his phone while I called a tow. WP has 30k miles on it, 2 years. Not happy. I took the TB off tonight and the WP is rock solid, will remove it tomorrow.
So, is a TB failure smooth, or is it sudden? Loud? Kaboom? I'll take the head off to make sure that if anything is broken it is fixed, but do the pistons chew through the valves real easily, or make a bad noise? I guess it depends on the weight of the car, the grip of the tires, and the strength of the TB to just mash the pistons into the valves. Otherwise the valves would lock up the tires in their tracks and you would screech to a halt.
Good thing I have that junkyard head laying around, hopefully I won't need rods or pistons
There was an Mk4 Golf in the same pullout, thought maybe a homeless guy, was full of stuff and a huge roof cargo carrier. I pushed my car to the back of the pullout and checked cell service, none. He hopped out and chatted, saw my TB... We chatted about my mods, how I liked the 11mm pump, and his Kerma 130hp package, and how he had 300k miles without problems, the mods done so long ago he couldn't remember them... He lent me his phone while I called a tow. WP has 30k miles on it, 2 years. Not happy. I took the TB off tonight and the WP is rock solid, will remove it tomorrow.
So, is a TB failure smooth, or is it sudden? Loud? Kaboom? I'll take the head off to make sure that if anything is broken it is fixed, but do the pistons chew through the valves real easily, or make a bad noise? I guess it depends on the weight of the car, the grip of the tires, and the strength of the TB to just mash the pistons into the valves. Otherwise the valves would lock up the tires in their tracks and you would screech to a halt.
Good thing I have that junkyard head laying around, hopefully I won't need rods or pistons