Clicking Sound When I Accelerate?


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Mar 10, 2007, 7:26 PM

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Before I start I'll say that I drive a 1990 Buick LeSabre with cast iron heads (so they don't melt as fast as alluminum ones)

The other day when I was driving, the "TEMP" light came on in my car (I hate that it doesn't have an actual guage). I immediately pull the car over and wait a couple of minutes. I start the car again with the "HEATER" setting cranked all the way up because I heard that's a good way to keep your car's temperature under control. The light never did come on again.

However, down the road I start to hear clicking. Rapid clicking. The speed of the clicking increases even more if I accelerate...and the car begins to wreak of over-heating. I knew I had to keep going though because I was in the middle of nowhere and I had only a couple of miles to go to a gas station/rest area....just as I go to pull into the place, my car shuts off and I become very aware that something's wrong and I fear that the engine may have seized up.

When I get out, my engine looks like 9/11. I waited about 45 minutes, put as much water in it as I could, and finished the remaining 4 miles to get home without any problems, but the clicking remains. Also the oil is just freaking filthy.

What do you think happened? And would you say it's safe to drive the car now without fear of destroying the engine?

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Mar 11, 2007, 5:09 AM

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Sounds like you need to get it towed to a shop to be checked out before you drive it again.

Steve

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Mar 11, 2007, 6:21 AM

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Okay...do you have any clues as to what it may be? I mean, I already know my car's screwed up.

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