This is good right?

[Psycho Chicken]

Haven't really figured out what went wrong yet. Left home on friday night, thrashed it around a paddock a bit, seemed to be ok with that. Coolant level light came on, filled it up at my first stop. Started back up 5 minutes later, came back on. Figured the sensor was stuffed, ignored it.

Coming home later on started to get fairly warm. Never got into the red but hanging around the MA area. Meh. Top of the hill on FTG road and she died pulling up to turn onto Jells road. Wouldn't start. Lots of burning oil. Temp light comes on. Dropped 5 litres of water into the cooling system, waited a few minutes, started her up and kept going. Water level and temp lights both on full time. Oil pressure dropping by the minute.

Pull in at Mulgrave Maccas for food. Get food. Leave. Alt light comes on and goes away. Whatever. Get to Centre road and Westall road, dies again, won't start. 5 litre bottle empty. ****. Found tap. Filled bottle. Put 20 litres into cooling system, just dumping on the road. Guess cracked radiator. Dump 10 litres on the engine. Start her up and keep going. Bottom end getting noisey at low revs. See John. John seems confused that I'm driving an EA. John drives off.

Westall road extension and Rowan road. Dies again. Close to home and no tap around, so I dump 5 litres on the engine and push on. Figure out I can bump it into neutral, keep the revs up to stop stalling and left foot brake around corners before dropping backing into drive. Steps out sideways when 'keep up revs' turns into 'pile on another 1,500 for fun'. Get home. Bottom end sounds terminal. Meh.

Having a quick look yesterday the big pipe on the coolant tank has snapped clean off. Don't think that's the cause of it all, I think dumping cold water in has done that. Probably done a head gasket then just gone downhill from there. Head has to be warped.

But at least I didn't need a taxi.