RussianEclipse
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- Sep 25, 2012
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Walnutport,
Pennsylvania
Alright I know the whole idea behind crank walk and I have read up about how it happens and such. But I can't tell if mine has it. Going to work one morning I went to make a left turn up a hill and my 95 GST acted weird I had power but as I shifted to third at the top of the hill I lost all power. Think I ripped one of my intercooler pipes off again I pulled over and looked. No they were all on. So I go to start the car and just cranks. Left the car in a parking lot and went to work. Came back i tryed to figure it out. Nothing was visibly wrong. Checked the codes and I had my usually e vap fault. And a multiple mis fire and a running to rich fault. So I was lost. Got the car home and me and my mechanic ripped in to the car checked all sensors. They were good by test. So we go to physically look at the crank sensor and as we removed the cover the sensor was torn to shreds by smashing against the crank. And the crank pulley was almost falling off. (Loose and when we put it one we made sure it was tight) I got the crank walk idea into my head. So we got to work taking out the motor and trans. Got it out and took off the oil pan and my buddy used a spoon bar and went to see if the crank would move at all and he said he could feel it move a bit but only thru the bar not see it move. So I thought that had to be crank walk. Plus that's what I had read, left turn, no power, scrapping sound from block, moving crank. But my car has 84,xxx miles on it. And is the classic dsm pain but I love it. When I bought it she needed a lot of work took about three months. Rebuilt head all new valves and such. All new everything but coolant temp sensor and and power steering pump. (No joke my entire bay besides what I mentioned and block and trans is new) and all work done correctly. Now I can't get the feeling that it's not crank walk cause I had just put 1,050 miles on the whole new setup and no problems besides a never ending boost leak. And besides this problem I had no signs besides sometimes for the past week it felt like I would build up all this power and it couldn't go any where like a boost leak or pipe disconnected. So does anyone know a for sure sign I have CW or is it something else that I can just fix. I plan on building the motor since it is out but if it's CW I'm gonna buy and build a full 6 bolt. But if I don't have to and I can use my new head and just build the block that would be great. And questions that are just useless like is there fuel or spark yes all sensors were fine but the crank sensor which was destroyed. I honestly have a feeling te crank pulley might be bad and it didn't stay tightened and started to slid and bash the sensor.