Guest 400 ci 280z Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 this is what happened. my younger(16) sister has a 300zx that our dad gave her. well she had the oil changed in feb. She goes to the store sunday night and comes back out and her car wont start. she calls my mom and uncle and he puts some cleaner in the gas. it then starts up but has an irratic idle and stalls if you give it gas, and there was a ticking noise from the pass. side of the engine. he thinks it is one of the lifters and tells me how to fix it. the next day my mom stop by the car and was curious how much oil it had in it. she calls me and tells me that the dip stick is DRY! first thing that comes to my mind is oh $h!t she just tore the engine up. i see my sister later that night and ask her when she had it changed an if she has checked the oil since then. she says "YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO CHECK IT AFTER THEY FILL IT UP". i just about cried when she said that and i went down there today and add 2.5 QUARTS of oil to it and the tapping went away. i mean it just suprises me at what women do to cars. sorry about my ranting and raving i just had to get this off my chest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fl327 Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 girls drive weird, i know one girl who drives wot all day, even over speed bumps, and only changes the oil when the light comes on, and she wants a z.. i laughed at her. another girl i know only warms her car long enough so that she can put her seatbelt on, then goes wot everywhere, i dont say a word because they both know i can work on cars.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 400 ci 280z Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 turns out that the fuel pump is not putting out enough psi of gas. it is suppose to be at 60-95 psi. and it only has enough to squrt a 5 inch stream of gas. shouldnt at 60-95 psi the gas should be going farther than that? it is getting enough gas to idle for a few secs. than it stalls. what do you guys think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biohzrd Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 well one thing you want to look at first is the filter. make sure its clear and free flowing. if it is the pump one thing you can try to do as a limp mode so to speak is clamp off the return line to the tank. this will cause all the fuel to get stopped at the rails and thus giving you a little more psi to work with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 400 ci 280z Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 the first thing i did was put a new filter in it in hopes that would solve the problem but ut didnt. does anyone know if you can remove the pump with out draining and removing the tank by taking the cover that is above the pump for the plugs and stuff. i ask this because she filled it up the day before so the tank has 16 or more gallons in it i think. i will try to do something to get it home tomorrow because i dont have a trailer or enough money to get it towed to our house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 i agree on some women not knowing what to do with vehicles. my sister is driving a 2000 dodge avenger. she has had it for almost 6 months now and still has yet to change the oil in it! it is already having problems wth less than 35000 miles on the clock. for some reason her oil pressure won't go past the halfay mark unless she floors it. i predict that this car will probably not make it over a year before she needs a new motor in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruxGNZ Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 Women... my sister had a 1980 something Dodge Colt a few years ago. It was low on oil, so she thought she would do good and fill it up. Well, she did fill it up... up to the top of the VALVE COVER! She then drove it happily thinking she worked on her own car and everything was fine. This is great...she calls me up and tells me that she couldn't see anyone behind her and all she could see was white smoke and it really smelled! The thing actually ran fine with that much oil in it. I have since schooled my sister and she knows better now. I'll never forget that phone call and she will never live that down . !M! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsommer Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 Watch for the "GENIE LAMP" to come on then something magical WILL happen David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted March 27, 2002 Share Posted March 27, 2002 It's not just girls man. A guy came in to do an oil change and I sent him out the door with 6 quarts of oil and a new filter. He went home and pulled the filter off and added 5 quarts. Lots of smoke and eventually had oil coming out of his CARBUERATOR!!! I guess that 9 quarts in a SBC will do that!! I also had a guy that told me his balancer was threaded and his crank wasn't so he beat it on with a hammer and now his motor shakes!! The best part was he wanted to know how to fix it!! In told him to go see the guy at the Ford dealership and ask for a shortblock!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim240z Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 told him to go see the guy at the Ford dealership and ask for a shortblock!!! ROTFLMAO Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 400 ci 280z Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 here is another one. my older sister (21) has a camaro z28. thing is the body is the z28 and the engine is a 6 cyl. When her and my mom bought the car they never looked under the hood and were mad that they got screwed on the car. one day she asks if i can change her brakes. well i go at it and do the drivers side. it goes pretty good then i start on the pass. side. pull the caliper off and i am thinking to myself that piston sure is sticking far. then i look at the rotor and i looks like it is pretty thin. i go to pull it of and feel something stabing my hand. so i look at the back side and all i see are metal strips going from the center all the way to the outer edge. she ate one WHOLE side of the rotor away. she then tells me that "oh that is why it was squilling". another was when she got rusty radiator fluid on everything in the engine compartment and on the outside. i tell her go wash it off or it can mess a lot of things up. well 3 weeks later i jumping her car and pop open the hood and there is STILL RUSTY fluid all over the place. i chew her out for a little while and tell her to wash it off. a week later she has to pay $700 to have the engine compartment re-wired. she tells me that she was going to wash it off tommorrow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
labrat Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 Hey, just to let you guys know, not all women are like that! When I had 2 blown headgaskets in my sbc 280ZX, my girlfriend pulled the heads for me! She's graduating as an engineer in May from the University of Texas, and she really likes figuring out how mechanical stuff works. Of cours, I put it all back together just to make sure, but she sweated a lot over it too! Believe it or not, she actually watches the guages in her Mazda 626, and even knows what they mean. She had a lifter in it ticking like crazy about three weeks ago, and at least she brought it to my attention, and asked me how to fix it. Not to fix it, but HOW to fix it. You gotta love a woman like that! (BTW, the CD2 engine oil detergent additive is like liquid gold!) Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 400 ci 280z Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 i agree with what you are saying. there are women that know a lot about cars and know how to take care of them. but there are also many women and even a lot men that could not tell you what any of their gauges are for. one of my friends for instance he would not know how to check his oil unless someone showed him how(this is a little exageration but i am sure you know what i mean). so i wont say that it is only women that do not know the little things about taking care of a car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Azel Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 Well, my story's kinda funny. My ex gf knows waaaaay more about cars than I do. One time I was driving my car around and a funky, burning odor was emanating from my head and I heard some sort of sizzle. She told me my A/C compressor had seized and that I'd thrown the belt. Turns out she was right afterall. She also warned me not too use Marvel Mystery Oil too frequently because it could corrode the seals and guess what? A few weeks later I found out I had a valve gasket leak. Right then and there I had a really bruised ego. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denny411 Posted March 28, 2002 Share Posted March 28, 2002 Even "IF" my wife or girlfriend(not that I have a gf)Knew more about cars than me I don`t think I would tell anyone. P.S. SHE DOESN`T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennysgreen280zt Posted March 30, 2002 Share Posted March 30, 2002 My sis is starting to get really really in cars , she is 20 and just bought a VW corrado VR6. she comes to me asking how to fix it and she changes her own oil too. I am a proud big Bro later ~KEnny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueovalz Posted March 30, 2002 Share Posted March 30, 2002 The only thing my wife really knows her business about my Z is that the passenger seat is 2" wider than the driver's seat (I wanted her to feel comfortable in the race seat). She still can't get past that (he he). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 A little contrast... My ex-roomate was given her father's car when she left for school. Her dad was a salesman and he put 280,000 miles on this 91 or 92 Accord. A true testament to the durability of Hondas. Anyway, the car looked and ran great, and I'd checked the oil for her on occasion, and it still was always nice and clear, not sooty at all. I was totally impressed with the car, but she hated it. Why? Because it was old and 'weak'. Well it was a 5 speed and the reason she thought it was week is that EVERY DAMN TIME she shifted, it was below 2500 rpm, and the car shook like crazy. Oh, and no, I don't think she knew how to check her oil. On the other hand, when I rebuilt the motor on my first car, an 87 Mazda 323 hatchback (the crank pulley was keyed, and the end of the crank had a tendency to BREAK OFF) I accidentally installed one of the main bearings upside down = covered oil passage. (HEY, I WAS YOUNG AND STUPID.) I figured out the problem after I started the car and the engine would just start running slower and slower and eventually stop. After I 'fixed' that little problem it only took about 4 months for the mangled crank to completely eat up the bearing and give me a hell of a rod nock. Well, in an effort to get me back on the road quickly, my older sister volunteered to help me tear down the motor and rebuild it again. As I recall we did it fairly quickly, and she learned a lot about cars in the process. The point is she wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty, and she has always been smart enough to take good care of her cars. I'm glad she has crappy cars though, because it's nice to occasionally have somebody to go to the junk yards with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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