Oh GM, you so silly

"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa) 03/03/2016 at 09:58 • Filed to: None

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With your leaky valve covers leaking oil right onto the exhaust manifolds.

crowmolly > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/03/2016 at 10:04

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That’s actually not bad for a W body fire.

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/03/2016 at 10:06

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How much was it leaking? It’s not an uncommon issue for vlve covers to leak onto the manifolds on many older longitudinal mounted V6 and V8 engines without spontaneous combustion....

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/03/2016 at 10:10

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Yay, oil fires!

EL_ULY > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/03/2016 at 10:12

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My Audi did that all the time. No fires doe

DasWauto > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 03/03/2016 at 10:15

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That’s what I was wondering. It’s fairly common when you’ve got a leaky valve cover gasket but there has to be a lot of oil going into the engine bay for it to do anything other than just turn to smoke off the manifold.

crowmolly > DasWauto 03/03/2016 at 10:19

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I think the recall lists it as an oil leak that fills the spark plug loom. Whole thing can go up.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/03/2016 at 10:21

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It threw a tantrum after wearing the donut for too long. Unfortunately, things got out of hand.

ceanderson920 > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/03/2016 at 10:26

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This happened to my old 01 grand prix. It burnt my parents garage down as well as fucking the upstairs up with smoke damage.

EDIT: this car actually doesn't look to bad compared to what my car looked like.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/03/2016 at 10:30

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This had to be a particularly serious build up of oil, if a just leaky valve cover gasket caused fires there wouldn’t be a single Land Rover on the road older than ten years...

BeaterGT > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/03/2016 at 10:55

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My Legacy had the same problem, nothing like pulling into work and thinking your car is on fire.

Leon711 > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 03/03/2016 at 11:22

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Used to happen on my mx5 so in line 4 too.

for Michigan > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/03/2016 at 11:24

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You’d think they would’ve learned something from the Fiero fiasco...

they-will-know-my-velocity > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/03/2016 at 11:29

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Are you sure it wasn’t a fuel leak? Because the GTO’s have problems with burning to the ground occasionall. There is a fuel line that feeds the driver’s side fuel rail. It gets chafed by the beautiful plastic vanity covers they put over the valve covers/coils. The cover was trimmed enough at the rear to clear the fuel line and it literally just cuts the fuel line open. It dumps pressurized fuel directly onto the driver’s side header and . . .

Replaced mine with a braided line from Russel. After only 50k or so it already had a very well defined cut in the fuel line.

they-will-know-my-velocity > crowmolly 03/03/2016 at 11:30

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That is awesome. We have that issue on older Detroit engines at my work. The engine harness will wick up oil from a pressure sensor and will foul the entire engine harness. At that point it is better to just burn the truck down.

bingham123 > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 03/03/2016 at 11:35

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owned 4 landies and they have all leaked marked there territory, i dont think ive seen/worked on one without being covered in oil.

Urambo Tauro > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/03/2016 at 11:47

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My brother’s ’98 Regal GS very nearly ended up looking like the above pic.

It was at a shop, and they were juggling cars around the crowded lot. The engine was left running while the car was parked on the side for a few minutes, and the next thing anybody knew, smoke was pouring out from under the hood. They put it out quickly and called my brother to give him the bad news.

Fortunately, only a few items were seriously damaged. The plastic engine cover, half of the plug wires, and a little plastic cylinder-thing (which we later found to be the boost controller). They gave my brother some spare wires they had lying around, and he drove the car to my place, where I replaced the valve cover gaskets.

As I removed the old gaskets, it became clear that the bolts were not only insufficiently torqued; they were unevenly torqued.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > they-will-know-my-velocity 03/03/2016 at 12:12

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This a Grand Prix, not a GTO. 3800 Series II with valve cover oil leaking issues. There’s actually a recall on it right now because it is known to cause oil fires.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 03/03/2016 at 12:13

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It leaks directly onto the manifold and puddles there. The Champagne Shitbox has yet to catch on fire from all the oil that was leaked onto its exhaust, though, so I am confus. This is a known issue with a recall out on it, though, so GM might be buying this person a new car.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > bingham123 03/03/2016 at 12:15

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My driveway is certified Land Rover territory.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/03/2016 at 12:16

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I’d say that’s a problem and hopefully GM does.

they-will-know-my-velocity > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/03/2016 at 12:22

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Oops, I see the rear door now.

I actually don’t know if GM ever released a recall for the fuel line issue on mine. Oh well. It’s fixed

sdwarf36 > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/03/2016 at 21:12

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80's Escorts had this same problem. Ford spent enough on lawyers to prove it wasn’t a common enough problem to force a recall.

pip bip - choose Corrour > they-will-know-my-velocity 03/04/2016 at 04:56

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never heard of that problem with Monaro / GTOs before , and i work at a Holden dealer here in Oz.

they-will-know-my-velocity > pip bip - choose Corrour 03/04/2016 at 08:52

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Maybe they cut your plastic covers differently. Common issue with the GTO’s here in the states. That and the BCM harness rubbing on a bit of firewall frame and cutting into it and shorting out.