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Ok, here's the story,

I started my drive from canberra to the Gold Coast at around 11 30 on sunday arvo. The car (my R33) was going really well, loving the highway and the room to stretch her long legs. I was sitting pretty until we hit the light horse interchange and I noticed that the temp guage had moved to about 3/4 I thought it could have been because of the long drive and I was running everything, So I turned off the aircon and kept going. We got off the highway to head through sydney and the first set of lights we hit the temp gauge jumped right up the the line before the 'H" so I pulled over and there was water pissing out of the overflow bottle. I let her sit and called NRMA, he came out and notice a few small leaking pipes but nothing major. And jeremy told me about a manual overide switch for the thermo fan. SO at about 5pm I started off again. Once again just plowing along. I was fine until 0300 when I was just north of Coffs Harbour and I heard a strange noise when I hit one of the thousand pott holes in that road. I heard it again about 30 seconds later, still not sure what was going on. So I looked down at the dash and noticed the battery light was off, once again I was running everything so I just turned off the radio. As I went around the next corner I noticed the power steering had died. Anyway I was about 2 mins from a servo so I pulled in there and had a look in the engine bay and there is my Harmonic balancer sitting off at a really bad angle.

I got towed into woolgoolga and they confirmed (the next day) that the crank had been totally flogged out. So in the next week she's getting a new crank, new harmonic balancer, new bearings, new oil pump, new thermostat for the radiator, and new radiator lines.

OK well now that's off my chest lol.

To make this topic interesting how about people post up their own "epic journeys" where everthing has just gone wrong

Cheers,

OB

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Melly Grand Master

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Pissed n Broke now? I can tell you own a Skyline.

As we blokes say "tits n wheels will send you broke".

I liken it to be a bit like marriage, but at least you can fix a car up.....

A lot less expensive too :P

Yeah I have that problem too... A boob job would cost about 10k... Plus car expenses...

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Nah it's being rebuilt with decent parts. The cheap part is the larbour. The guy only charges 77$ an hour. Nispro wanted 180$ an hour for labour. But yeah i'm putting all dencent parts in it like ACL race bearings, I geniune RB26 crank (gonna see how much an HKS drop forged crank is) and loads of other stuff I can't remember

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