What Have I Done To The Poor Little Gt!

[Scott-EP]

Went out a minute ago to get a video for the Exhaust Sound thread ;)

Well when i was going along a gave it a little and all i heard was tap tap tap... Bang.. then a Flap flap flap ect.. Then the Battery Light come on as did This other light that looked like this...

My Awesome Paint skills!

All happened really quickly but turned it off as soon as possible got out looked underneath and my Fan belt had shredded and was hanging underneath!

Phoned my old man up he come and towed me home.

Got home and started it up it ran fine but then after about 1minute it started hissing and Smoking so turned it off noting that the Temperature gauge was below half way!

When engine was off the Engine was making a Bubbling noise basically like it had over heated!

Undone the Radiator cap (Whilst wearing suitable PPE ) and Boiling hot water went everywhere and has left my Radiator Water Free. Which is annoying as it was brand new antifreeze 3ltrs to be precise!

So at the moment she is sat outside looking sad with and puddle of water underneath her..

[Scott-EP]

Dammit! It was only running without one for about 2 minutes.. I couldn't see were the water pump was so assumed it was on the Cambelt!

[scot-ish]

yup, i agree with jay, sounds like you might have boiled it.

bad news, hope im wrong tho.

you'll need some daylight to get a good look at it.

[Scott-EP]

I'll get it down work this week hopefully and do a pressure check on it.. Hopefully I've been lucky

[Dan Evans]

best thing mate, is to flush the coolent out, get a new belt on it and do a pressure test on it.

[Scott-EP]

Just ordered a couple of new belts.. Will get it down work when they turn up and do a Cyclinder Leakage test and go from there

[iamlegend]

dude this happend to my GT and i drove home without no belt for 3 miles it was dark so i did not kno what the problem was untill daylight seen my belt was gone obv snapped VERY lucky did not cook the engine so should be ok *fingers crossed*

[Scott-EP]

Cheers buddy!

I'm hoping it hasn't done any damage but I've said if anything goes wrong with it meaning I will have to take the engine apart then I would just get the whole engine out and Forge it! ;)

[Scott-EP]

Can some one tell me what that Dash Light actually mean's though please ?

[Dan Evans]

that sign means your CAT is hot

[Amjad]

Hope it's nothing major man!

[Scott-EP]

that sign means your CAT is hot

Cheers buddy!

Hope it's nothing major man!

Thanks same here but hey it's only nuts and bolts lol

[lukEp]

You'll find your belt might have snapped because you waterpump has seized up

[Scott-EP]

This is true.. I will see if i can turn the pulley tomorrow when it's daylight

[JAG]

Bummer man,

Hope its not cooked it n u get it all sorted!

[Socks]

if the water temp gauge didnt rise then it shudnt hav got too hot surely, unless u had no water in it at all....

worst case scenario is uve blown the h/g and warped the head. nice skim and new headgasket be right as rain again!

[GTnomez]

Surely if you open the radiator cap, it will volcano out, i dont think youve cooked it tbh.

[Glanza_cl]

i would replace the water pump while your doing the belts... it will be the original 15year old one so would be worth it for piece of mind

[Liam_D]

Hope you get it sorted without to much hassle buddy!!

[rorenapier]

The symbol does mean the cat is over heating, but it also illuminates if the alterntor is not charging. No belt, no charge.

[Scott-EP]

Surely if you open the radiator cap, it will volcano out, i dont think youve cooked it tbh.

It did volcano out! My old man took the cap of and got covered in Boiling Hot anti freeze.. I did try telling him but he never listens