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woaface
04-30-2004, 01:59 PM
Saw a huge cloud of smoke in the right hand lane of a 4 lane highway today. Looked at the top of the could and spotted a dark blue 96 or so Camaro. Appears to be two teenage kids. Smoke was POURING from underneath the engine compartment. I pull over to help what turns out to be a guy in his late 20s early 30s...and good thing he died at a stop light, made it so much easier to get that thing out of the way of traffic (his 7-8 year old son wasn't very good at steering as he couldn't see over the dash...and his braking skills were non-existant.) So we both pushed (I couldn't believe other people beeped at him to move!), me steering from outside. To add to his troubles his cell phone was uncharged so I let him use mine. I also reminded him to turn his engine off, last thing I wanted to happen was for the chevy to blow to bits.

Anyways, he said his trouble was his transmission, that he had changed the fluid today (I'm guessing he didn't do a great job) but he insisted the transmission was about anyway. He had just picked up his son from school, and he was a good kid, very quiet.

So what do you guys think was wrong with it? The smoke was white, coming from the bottom of the engine, from where the transmission was. It was an automatic...

merc406
04-30-2004, 02:04 PM
Overfilled it maybe or the pan gasket's leakin, both on the exhast.

MARAUDERCHICK
04-30-2004, 02:21 PM
Don't know what is wrong with the Camaro, but you James are a good man for stopping to help this guy!!

KUDOS TO YOU!!:banana: :rock: :banana2: :bounce:

~Kathy~

NOMARQUIS
04-30-2004, 02:26 PM
Could it be the automatic trans modulator? Maybe the newer cars don't have one, but I was riding in a Buick once in high school (when I was James' age, man I'm old) and the car lost that part. It stunk and smoked worse than a De La Hoya. Good karma to help a strandid motorist. (You gotta like pushing a G.M.!)

Eric

woaface
04-30-2004, 03:15 PM
Thanks Kathy, I'm glad I was able to keep NoMarquis's thoughts to myself...I WANTED to mentioned that he could trade his p.o.s. i mean, Chevy, in for a Marauder...but I didn't:D

Fourth Horseman
04-30-2004, 03:41 PM
(I couldn't believe other people beeped at him to move!)

Oh, that was you? Sorry man, I wouldn't have laid on the horn had I know.
:lol:

Logan
04-30-2004, 04:56 PM
Hmmm... I would've just laughed at the chevy and kept drivin', but hey... ;)