Bonj87

ok. .anyone notice anything wrong with these pics?? supposedly one family of one dad, one mom, and two small kids. look how many vehicles... and notice how they are always parked in front of the mailbox in front of MY house??? tonight im parking the rental in front of our house so they cant park there in the morning!!!

that actualy LOOKS like blood....

ya know.. i wanna shoot myself sometimes!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2-2L-chevy-...sspagenameZWDVW

The shop got one from one of thier suppliers in Florida.. a refurbed for 400 bucks with all new valves and such. added 200 bucks to the repair cost. it will be done tuesday.

the news is getting worse and worse.. the head is no good.. its cracked.. the shop (or maybe me) has to find a new one.

gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh OH WELL .. yeah.. maybe next time LOL

but i worked so hard to get my stats up so high1!!???

they did a compression test to verify

yeah.. lookin at a rental car now.. 190 bucks for the rest of the week so she can get to work.

This just in .. dididiidid.... attention.. mr and mrs america.. and all the ships at sea.... head gasket.. they are doing a compression test to confirm before they tear it down. 900 to 1000 is the projected cost, and since they cant mill the head there, it will take 3 days to get the whole job done. we are calling the ins to see if they will cover a rental..

what about an alternator going bad causing weirdness on the guages?

i got this from a jbody forum..... "Sounds like an electrical issue - not a mechanical one. She would have seen steam with the car off if it had overheated. It also can't cool and heat THAT fast, so I wouldn't worry about the motor being cooked. The gage would never go down to MIN after it's been running hot - maybe down to normal, but not likely any lower. I believe that the BCM feeds the cluster with its info, and the BCM gets its info for that from the PCM. I would guess that maybe the PCM was spitting out info intermittently, and then shut down entirely. I don't think that this is a common failure any more, but at least there should be enough used units around to get things going without too much expense. It will probably cost more to get it properly programmed than to find another module. Hopefully these are pretty smart guys you have taken it to. Problems like this can get time consuming very easily if you're not 100% familiar with how all of the parts interact. "

callin all SSSers.. any Illinois SSSers, or anyone traveling thru in the next day who thinks they can help repair wifey's car... if the shop cant fix it, ill have it towed home, but i lack all ability to do the repairs myself..

im so sorry!!

thats what i dont want to hear from the repair shop.. god help us.

it was about 2 degrees out. we've never touched the coolant in the car, in fact jiffy lube said the levels were fine on saturday.

i like those

it was very dark and very cold.. couldnt see anything at that point, or at that place to tell you

it cranks and no start. it did crank 'strangely'. didnt sound like a normal crank when i tried it, like a low power crank, if that makes sense.

yeah.. im starting to think im screwed.. but maybe im just being paranoid.

i turns over.. still waiting to hear.. they said we may not hear from them until tomorrow..

tuffy's said they'd get to us this afternoon or in the morning.. until then ill be nervous nelly..

it turns over, but sounded weird, almost like it didnt have power to start , like a lower battery, but it was too cold to really troubleshoot last night at midnight, but it didnt sound proper. i did not sound seized at the time.

maybe 20 miles with the temp going up and down.. at 50 to 60 mpg

looked KINDA wet, but not soaked, but then again, the road was wet. couldnt see what was 'engine wet' vs 'road wet'.. think the PCM would kill the engine to save it and prevent damage??? please tell me we wouldnt have done damage??