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Originally Posted by Ace23
UPDATE: Finally had some nice weather yesterday so I pulled the cover off and started the clean up process. I wiped everything down, cleaned the carpets, shop vaccumed the inside and cleaned up the wheels. Got in the car pumped the accelerator 4 times and it fired right up. I kept the throttle on it and maintained about 1000-1200RPM for about a minute and then it smoothed out maintained an idle. Took a quart of oil and some paper towels with me and headed to the gas station to put 93 in it and inflate the tires. The rest of the story is I put 70 miles on it and loved every second.
So.....before I cranked it up I pushed it back out of the drive and under the car was all wet. The weather has been really nasty around here and it has been sitting for about a month since I got it. It looked like a massive amount of condensation had just been sitting under the car but I also found fluid that was just kinda muddy looking. I stuck my hands in it and it was all water there was not oil substance to it so I'm kinda stumped on that one as I couldn't tell what it was. After the car warmed up and about 20 miles of cruising I pulled over and check the oil and it was on the add line so I put about half a quart in it. The second issue I experienced was the brakes felt terrible. I've never driven an older car but something tells me the brakes need looking at it just seemed to have zero bite and I felt like I needed to press the pedal through the floor board to get it slow. The finally issue I had was a few times when I turned the car off about the second you expected it to quite running it seemed to keep turning over and then let a puff of vapor out that I could see rise from the hood intake. I believe I turned it off and about 6 locations through out the night and it did this about 3 times. Other than this the car ran great and it has probably not had 20 miles put on it since last summer so maybe some of this was symptoms of just sitting up for a long time and maybe the gas has changed to the spring mix. Plans are to change the oil and filter and do a coolant flush this weekend pending time and weather. |
Your car has a vacuum brake booster and it sounds like it is not working. Plus the "Muddy" fluid could be contaminated brake fluid. If the master is leaking it may have drawn fluid into the booster which will cause the booster to fail. I wiuld take a good look at the hydraulics before driving for safety.