Diary of a Madman; TitaniumTT's see you @ DGRRXI RE-REbuild

[TitaniumTT]

Ah, I see. I much better failure than the one I had. My PS pump started sounding like a supercharger. Thought, fuck it, I don't have the time, steering still works great, I'll deal with it when it becomes a problem. Well about a week later I'm driving up rt 57 which is a pretty bitchin backroad with about a one mile stretch of strait before a turnoff about 5 miles from my old house. Driving down the straight I see the car that was behind me, back off. I'm looking in the rearview and see what looks like trailing smoke.... thinking that's wierd... huh... I think I should check that out. I get to the end of the straight, go for the 135* turn and no PS at all... that's a TOUGH wheel to turn too, 31" mudders on a worm gear box BLOWS! A little offrd action becuase I couldn't make the turn and finally get to a safe spot. Open the hood, get a puff of smoke in the face, see PS fluid EVERYWHERE and the pulley, with the front bearing and shaft basically got ejected out of the pump body and was resting against the rad. Single serp belt, I wasn't going anywhere.

Lesson learned, or so I thought. About a year later the converter brick started rattling around. THought, whatever, I don't have the time, I'll fix it later. A week or so later the brick broke loose and plugged the exhaust, so far down on power it was embarassing.