Please take the time to help me figure this out, I need help with enigne / tranny problem thanks.


Something happened to my car about an hour ago I need help. I will try to describe the symptoms as much as I can to help diagnose the problem...

Ok, first I was stopping at a light, and the car was (don't know how to describe ) chuggin a little, vibration, felt kind of like a bent rotor or something.

I didn't thin much of the first occurence, got on the express way, then got off and noticed it again and again, only at low speeds... So I put down the windows and could hear a terrible sound ... it sounded like a freaking semi truck but quieter, I got near home and pulled over.

The RPMs were going up and down a bit, it would go higher then lower then higher, range of like 300 or so I think. Sounded terrible, I'm really scared. I opened the hood to take a look and the engine was pretty hot and smelled like burning oil a bit. Sounded like the noise was coming from the serpentine belt area, which we removed that belt yesterday when changing alternators.

I had no choice but to get it home, so I turned it off to check again under the hood (nothing different cept no noise of course....), then started it up again... very slowly .

Had to turn it around to park in street, and it stalled when swtiching to reverse... turned it back on... very slowly again it started... Got parked and turned it off.

Had to take my friend home so used my dads car and came back bout 15 mins later and checked under the hood with the engine off again, still smelled looked closer right above the front valve cover and saw boiling oil sitting there, which must be from the lower intake manifold leak I think there is (pretty sure the mechanic said that when checking the car out b4 buying, he said it didn't need fixing right away) I believe thats what he called it (can verify later).

I checked the oil level and it was full, serpentine belt looked fine (wish it was the problem...), please help me!

I'm really scared right now, feel like crying, and am praying the tranny isn't the cause. Thank you for reading this and please give me your thoughts, even if you think I don't want to hear them. Please help me out