- Dec 6, 2004
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Any help you guys can give me right now would be great, im a little pissed to say the least. Heres what happened...
I was driving down the highway today and noticed my check engine light came on, no biggy... car wasnt down on power and it wasnt flashing like its indicating a misfire. So I was just going to stop by Advanced or Autozone later to get the codes scanned.
SO I get off the highway and pull up to a stop light where I smell a very faint smell like a hot clutch or something, didnt think anything about it because it wasnt a strong smell. So fast forward to about 4-5 miles down the road where I pull up to another light. As soon as I stop (my vents were on, so it was blowing air from around the engine bay at me) I smell a wretched burning plastic smell and it kept getting worse every second. I figured it was me this time, and not the car in front of me.
So I pulled over into a parking lot right off the highway and opened the door, where the burning plastic smell flooded my nose. I shut the car off immediatly and popped the hood expecting to see flames. I popped it and a small poof of smoke shot out when I opened the hood, and luckily there was no fire.
But, the nasty burning smell was definatly still there and I seemed to pinpoint it closest to the rear passenger side of the engine bay... While I was looking around I noticed that the one line coming from the back of the plenum (its kind of close to the EGR) looked like it had been burning from the inside out, it was turning kind of white and had gotten brittle. Its also the line that runs right next to a fuel line, or return fuel line if im not mistaken.
I dont know wtf caused it, but im almost positive its directly related to the CEL. So I plan on buying a code reader tonight and pulling them. I dont feel safe driving the car at all untill I know whats what.
The only possible thing I have came up with is that the EGR valve got stuck open and it was dumping extremley hot air into the plenum and started burning stuff...? I dunno, probaly not the case but any suggestions are great.
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I was driving down the highway today and noticed my check engine light came on, no biggy... car wasnt down on power and it wasnt flashing like its indicating a misfire. So I was just going to stop by Advanced or Autozone later to get the codes scanned.
SO I get off the highway and pull up to a stop light where I smell a very faint smell like a hot clutch or something, didnt think anything about it because it wasnt a strong smell. So fast forward to about 4-5 miles down the road where I pull up to another light. As soon as I stop (my vents were on, so it was blowing air from around the engine bay at me) I smell a wretched burning plastic smell and it kept getting worse every second. I figured it was me this time, and not the car in front of me.
So I pulled over into a parking lot right off the highway and opened the door, where the burning plastic smell flooded my nose. I shut the car off immediatly and popped the hood expecting to see flames. I popped it and a small poof of smoke shot out when I opened the hood, and luckily there was no fire.
But, the nasty burning smell was definatly still there and I seemed to pinpoint it closest to the rear passenger side of the engine bay... While I was looking around I noticed that the one line coming from the back of the plenum (its kind of close to the EGR) looked like it had been burning from the inside out, it was turning kind of white and had gotten brittle. Its also the line that runs right next to a fuel line, or return fuel line if im not mistaken.
I dont know wtf caused it, but im almost positive its directly related to the CEL. So I plan on buying a code reader tonight and pulling them. I dont feel safe driving the car at all untill I know whats what.
The only possible thing I have came up with is that the EGR valve got stuck open and it was dumping extremley hot air into the plenum and started burning stuff...? I dunno, probaly not the case but any suggestions are great.
:SNSign:
