shazamrx

Drove car to work, ran fine all the way, temp fine, oil preasure fine. Shut it off and when I came out its frozen solid. Starter won`t turn it and you can`t turn it buy the crank. no movement at all! Pulled plugs and they look fine! Anyone ever heard of anything like this?

Its an 87 Turbo II with 70,000 Mi.

SDrotary-FC

does'nt soound good

Bambam7

Carbon lock!!!
Not exactly uncommon by any means. Happened to me actually.

DO NOT TRY TO ROTATE IT FORWARD.
Pull the plugs, try to squirt any type of cleaner that dissolves carbon in there.
Let it sit for a while, and try to crack it BACKWARDS.
You have a chance of unseizing it.
You could also have somebody pull you backwards, and drop it into 1st gear, and let the clutch out- it could pop loose.

As long as you didn't reef on it like crazy in a forward direction, it could be OK. It's most likely a chunk of carbon that got dislodged and is binding.
Good luck!!

shazamrx

I actually havn`t had a chance to really look at it in detail yet, and no I didn`t really reef on it! This car has been babied all it`s life (maybe too much)and I can`t imagine it`s anything but carbon! I just had it towed home and its just setting there in the garage untill I have time to look at it more, I just thought I`d give you guys a try at figuring it out and offer sugestions first! I`ll put something into the rotors and let it sit overnight and see what happens! I`ve heard that Seafoam is a good softener of carbon, any other ideas?

Project84

Now why in the hell would you do that? The engine doesn't rotate the opposite way when you are going in reverse, it just engages the idler gear to change output direction. Putting it it 1st while while the rear and the tranny output are rotating backwards will do nothing but put unneccesary stress and strain on the transmission.

bcool

well he did say put it in FIRST gear while pushing it backwards so it would have a reverse rotational effect on the engine

shazamrx

Project84:

They got ya on that one!!!