I finished my A/C removal (finally) and went to test my car. I also checked my DTC's and found one to be a vacuum leak. I plugged up my breather hose because that's what I thought the leak was. I pulled the dipstick to check the oil, took out my spare tire, emptied my trunk, removed back seats, and I was off. Since it was a "speed test" the f*cker FLEW! Fastest it has ever been. I went around my neighborhood and got stopped at a light. I revved the engine and all was good, I flew off the light and heard a sharp metallic *TING*, I quickly slowed down and checked all my indicator lights, but all was good. I turn into my neighborhood and go to park, and I notice that my throat feels like its burning, like when you stand too close to the smoke at a barbeque. Worried, I look up and I see thick smoke billowing out of my engine compartment. I nearly passed out. I turned off the car and opened the hood. To my terror, I found oil EVERYWHERE, on the inside of the hood, my tranny, my fans, my battery, spark plugs, everywhere. Worst case scenarios start running through my head, headgasket, valves, piston rings, broken block (debo's ARP post flashed across my mind). Finally, I get my head together and start checking my engine for missing parts. Most blatantly obvious, my dipstick was missing, and the dipstick tube seemed to be the center of all of the oil. I had found my problem. I think, with the A/C off of the car, the breather tube plugged up, and my dipstick already loose, the oil pressure got so high when I was at the light, that it rocketed my dipstick out, it hit my hood and oil sprayed out of the tube all over my freshly cleaned engine. I counted my lucky stars that I hadn't just witnessed the end of my affiliation with Daewoo.
I think I caught it on time. I found my dipstick at the bottom of my engine compartment, I put it in and had about 4 mm of oil off of the MIN mark.
Do you guys think that I could have damaged my engine? I refilled it with oil, put the dipstick in, unplugged the breather hose,and it was running very smoothly, no other drips. Even though I'm still afraid to drive it now.
Now I need a new dipstick, new oil cap, and a new timing belt. Not bad for a days work.
