Oh ****, was that what that loud clank was? It got a little bent... so now I guess it's an up-pipe.... soooorry.

 

ohhhh ouch!!!! guess ill be fabing something funky!

 

ill just run the exhause under the right fender!

 

well guys i might not be able to attend the Auto-X sunday. Remember how I said mst sevens require a blood sacrifice to appease them....well got the widebody almost put back together and when to double check that the left front hub assembly was spinning without binding, with one of those fancy enkei spares...and my right middle finger got caught between the spoke of the wheel and the huge FC caliper....so as of 1am this morning my finger has been bleeding rather steadily from beneath the the entire nail, which may nt be entirey connected anymore.

 

thats really nasty man. i just did that the other day on a s2k and it didnt feel nice at all. still got a nastly blood blister from it. hey j you got one of those sprayers huh? if so you should bring it sunday for the wheels and tires

 

Yeah...ill try and get a picture of it when i change the gauze again...ill only link it as I really dont need to see it again and again....

 

Ah come on Derrick, tough it up! You can at least show up and support. We'll get you a wheelchair or something to zip around the course in.

 

Ill show up, but depending on how my hand feels on the drive TO the auto-x will determine if I run or not.

 

Welp, it's your right hand... if you can manage one shift to 2nd then you're set from there.

 

yeah, we shall see, its just one of those nagging pains, making it harder to do simple ****.

 

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Theres the dmg to my finger...

 

its puring like a bear..well atleast its purring i even just drove it to work iv got about 30 miles on it now.

any ideas why all my guages and idot light cluster would all go out?? i thought a fuse was burned up but i looked and all the fuses checked out.

the boiling over was from a bad thermostat and ummm no need for a suicide line

the bad is i still dont ahve a working tmep and oil pressure guage..or for that matter any guage now

think i can convence someone to hook em up for me on sunday?

and where are we meeting at so i know where to go

 

It'll buff out. Does look pretty painful. I wouldn't be able to work for a week if I did that to mine. Gotta protect the digits man, livelihood depends on it.

 

We can take a look if you can get it here, although it'll probably be after the autocross since we're all gonna be a little busy. You could have a bad light/dimmer switch, although the idiot cluster isn't tied into that and neither are the gauges themselves. Sounds like you've got a few different issues there.

 

i think buffing it out would hurt a bit more, but ill post pics shortly of WHAT igot done before the ouchies began...and i might convince josh to get the lines attached and bled to take it to the auto-x just to be drooled over....we shall see

 

 

im going to the autox but to watch not run

 

hey derick u got a spare s4 filler neck laying around? i cracked mine but used some good jb weld

 

filler neck? the coolant thingy that goesatop the block or the oil neck?

 

the meteal neck that goes on the water pump that the top rad hose connects too

hey u know why all my guages adn idot light s would all go out?? i checkd the fuses

 

yeah ive got a spare filler neck, needs cleaned up and repainted.

But as far as the lack of lights and gauges....id check all the connections behind the panels, and the lights if they are blown. But chances are with all the gauges dying you fried the fuses, which you should pull out to check, and maybe tripped the breakers.

 

the only fuses are under the driver floorbard right ??? they all checkout and i never took the guages out so they are hooked up/.

and how much u want for that filler neck on sunday?? i need it bad

one of the 2 big black breakers was triped but i puched it abck in.. can u blow one out permanetly?

 

its possible to permanently fubar a breaker yes, but i dont need the filler neck so you can have it, just takin up space otherwise, and get an overflow reservoir...
But its still possible to fry wires and teh circuit boards on the clusters.

 

i ahve a overflow tank but my idot lights dont work neither so i dont think that the board or anythng is fried

i think i may have done it i had a battery charger on and then it started and my alt took over so its possible it had more then 12volts at any given time

 

check your underhood fuses and the fuse block itself, strange **** happens sometimes.