after months of no problems she broke down kinda

[project b6t]

was on my way home from school for thanksgiving break and was about 4 and a half hours in to my 5 hours trip and i hit rush hour coming into Connecticut (pretty normal stop and go). So i am sitting for about 15 minutes in stop and go and i look down and my water temp gauge is through the roof (top line but not pegged out). i instantly pull over and open the hood. Just as im pulling over water begins to spray out the over flow and im think ... wtf happened. Call up my dad (i am only about 15 minutes away from home). He thinks instantly its the water pump and i agree because i didnt blow the head gasket and all hoses where intact. i let her cool down and push her to the nearest exit off the high way (about 500 feet... up hill ugh). i push her down the exit and drive very easily to the gas station (temp never got above 3/4 mark).

I pull in and im thinkin i am going to wait for traffic to get through then limp it home and just buy 5 gallons of water. so i fill up my engine with some fine h20 and i just take a look around and i notice ... hey my radiator fan temp sensor isnt plugged in.... :x

I plug it and and just bleed the system real quick in the parking lot and get back on the high way and the temp never got above the 1/8th mark on the temp gauge.

I guess since i am putting the new turbo and what not in this weekend i mine as well grab a new water pump and be done with it :roll: .

RANNTTINNGGG

-Ian

[packrat427]

So it was just the sensor unplugged and the fan did not come on in traffic ,
wow you got lucky .

[freshtiva]

Better fix that sensor connection to make sure is doesn't fall off again. Just in case you hadn't thought of that

[project b6t]

Better fix that sensor connection to make sure is doesn't fall off again. Just in case you hadn't thought of that

REALYY?!>!?>!>! :roll:


:idea:


Yeah, i am going to fill her up tomarrow,bleed the air out some more and see how she is doing. She idled kind of funny on the way back but i guess its been doing that for a while now and i just noticed it :?

-Ian

[25Horseplay]

You were lucky it didn't overheat and cause some real damage!

[Damkid]

very lucky

[solatare]

notice my sig has two dead dsms?

yea. fan sensors went on both off em. my 90 shorted so bad at the fan it melted the connector, had to splice in a new ground to make it work again, then the capacitors on the ecu exploded an shorted what was left, ive since retired it since it wont do anything more n idle now. My 91 awd turbo sufferd a worse fate, brand new motor an harness, wiring was very delicate on dsms, so i had it replaced, an the same thing happened, it got just hot enoughto crack the upper hose bung on the radiator( stock end tanks are plastic, and it was prolly original) got on the high way an boom, upper hose bung shears, water goes everywhere, an i spend the next 8 hours juryrigging the harness so i can drive home, im three hours from home, by the time i get there its trying to die, an about a week later it succeeds by succumbing to capacitor faliure like my 90. i then bought festiva number 3. an all has been well, anyone want a dsm?