loosenut
Club Member
So, I am getting my Buick ready for the nationals next week in Bowling Green. I drove it for the first time since Woodward last year. On Friday I took it to a shop to have the front suspension installed and have an alignment done. On the way home I smelled coolant and the temp was a little high. It was blowing coolant from the radiator cap. No biggie, I stop at Autozone and bought a new cap.
On Wednesday my rear sway bar finally showed up and I took it to the shop to have that installed. No problem. I left work early for a Dr. appointment. I'm cruising down 275 and I look down and my temp going between 210-220 and all I smell is coolant. Thats because I have a gallon of it in the passenger side floorboard. Heater core blew. I get off the highway and make my way to an Orileys. I was able to buy the necessary parts and tools to bypass the heater core and get back on the road and get to my Dr. appointment on time.
I get to my doc office in Novi. While I'm waiting to be called in, I realize I can't find the keys. I go back outside and see them sitting on the center console of the locked car. So, after the Dr. appointment I get AAA out and get me into the car.
I am on the way home and get on to M5 and I get on the boost a little. Didn't hammer it. I look in the rear view mirror and see a huge cloud of white smoke. All the gauges were OK so I kept driving. All the way home to Southfield. I pulled into a restaurant across the street from my house to pick up lunch and I see it smoking from under the hood. I pop it and see my lower radiator hose had exploded. I drove it from 11 mile and Halsted to 10 mile and Telegraph with no coolant in the car.
If it hadn't been for the e-85 running so cool, it never got over 180 degrees on the highway I never would have made it home and would have probably blown the motor on the freeway right there.
On Wednesday my rear sway bar finally showed up and I took it to the shop to have that installed. No problem. I left work early for a Dr. appointment. I'm cruising down 275 and I look down and my temp going between 210-220 and all I smell is coolant. Thats because I have a gallon of it in the passenger side floorboard. Heater core blew. I get off the highway and make my way to an Orileys. I was able to buy the necessary parts and tools to bypass the heater core and get back on the road and get to my Dr. appointment on time.
I get to my doc office in Novi. While I'm waiting to be called in, I realize I can't find the keys. I go back outside and see them sitting on the center console of the locked car. So, after the Dr. appointment I get AAA out and get me into the car.
I am on the way home and get on to M5 and I get on the boost a little. Didn't hammer it. I look in the rear view mirror and see a huge cloud of white smoke. All the gauges were OK so I kept driving. All the way home to Southfield. I pulled into a restaurant across the street from my house to pick up lunch and I see it smoking from under the hood. I pop it and see my lower radiator hose had exploded. I drove it from 11 mile and Halsted to 10 mile and Telegraph with no coolant in the car.
If it hadn't been for the e-85 running so cool, it never got over 180 degrees on the highway I never would have made it home and would have probably blown the motor on the freeway right there.
