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It's "You're" and your quotes are screwed up.

Your a smart guy? Seem to be that wasn't ATF.... Brake clean, battery acid etc ATF will not hurt paint...

Sure it won't...your car must not have large scale ATF leaks then.

Waw, this car is so incredibly clean, I love it! I really respect attention to detail like spraying the spot below the battery!

yep I screwed up the quote and the your instead your'e but I've seriously never seen ATF harm paint.....has anyone else? just curious

2 5's and a 7 wrote:yep I screwed up the quote and the your instead your'e but I've seriously never seen ATF harm paint.....has anyone else? just curious

I saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er7gzj0BbSE

Pretty much anything left on paint long enough will damage it.

Access deined lol.....I'll watch it when I get home. By the way I hope I didn't come off as an asshole. Just something new to me, and I'm old!

2 5's and a 7 wrote:Access deined lol.....I'll watch it when I get home. By the way I hope I didn't come off as an asshole. Just something new to me, and I'm old!

Don't worry. I don't take ANYTHING here that seriously.

cek wrote:

2 5's and a 7 wrote:Access deined lol.....I'll watch it when I get home. By the way I hope I didn't come off as an asshole. Just something new to me, and I'm old!

Don't worry. I don't take ANYTHING here that seriously.

Oldskool will be heartbroken.

Went to start Vlad this morning and heard a loud CRACK.

Shut her down and opened the hood. Found this. My radiator fan detonated:


Does this just happen sometimes?

There's nothing (obvious) in there that it could have hit.

WTF?!? every blade?!? i've seen one blade let go. perhaps it shredded the others?

OE fan from BMW?

Or was it a non-OE one?

slammin_e28 wrote:OE fan from BMW?

Or was it a non-OE one?

No idea. Service records only show fan clutch had been replaced (several times).

Aftermarket ones, from WorldPac I know of, have been known to blow apart randomly.

Any animal parts laying around?

No obvious animal carnage. But I actually didn't look close under the car yet.

How easily should a fan spin by hand? The remants on Vlad seem pretty tight. How can I tell if it was the fan clutch that seized causing this? I've read some threads that indicate this can happen.

Ok, got a chance to look at the car. No dead animals or evidence of animal dismemberment apparent.



Seems to be a lack of blades. I only count the tips of 4 blades present. I found one down by the battery. Hmmm... I wonder where the other 5 went?

After moving the car I found one more blade and...

This washer.



OMFG.

You know what this means, right?

That I'm a hack mechanic who should't be building engines?

It also explains the oil leaking into the crank pulley. I sure hope that driving several thousand miles without a tight crank nut (which is nowhere to be found) didn't do any damage.

If the woodruff key isn't sheared, you should be fine.

Oh, and don't touch my engine.

Kyle in NO wrote:If the woodruff key isn't sheared, you should be fine.

Oh, and don't touch my engine.

CJ asks "if the woodruff key is sheared, what do we do? Crush the car?"

cek wrote:

Kyle in NO wrote:If the woodruff key isn't sheared, you should be fine.

Oh, and don't touch my engine.

CJ asks "if the woodruff key is sheared, what do we do? Crush the car?"

Dig the sheared piece out of the crank snout with a pick and install a new key. They are cheap.

http://www.autohausaz.com/search/produc ... 7119951485

Looks like you got off easy.

Wow!

you said "crank nut"




hope it all turns out minor!

cek wrote:It also explains the oil leaking into the crank pulley. I sure hope that driving several thousand miles without a tight crank nut (which is nowhere to be found) didn't do any damage.

Holy crap. You mean you never tightened that nut? Don't you have a checklist or something?

Me, I don't do checklists but whenever I install something I make sure to finish that particular process. Less chance of forgetting something.