blown head gasket
blown head gasket i think i blew another gasket i just put a set of worked over heads and a hotcam in my car i also put and electric waterpump i got the car running and bled the cooling system and took it for a drive it overheated on me and got to 240 degrees and then it blew out the seal on the coolant croosover tube found out the impeller came off the waterpump i installed the impeller with loctite and now the car runs rough and a butload of steam is coming out of the steam tube it blew before right next to the steam jacket last time also the car will run and just die and only has like 5 psi of oil pressure anybody have any confimation of my car is dead and pull the whole motor i cant belive it blew it that quick also my book says only 65 ft lbs for the head tourqe seems kinda weak
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I do not think it a head gasket, Sound like you have cooling issues. Well i should say i dont think it was a head gasket problem that started that mess. After you let the car cool down, And try to restart it what does it do ? If your car is ideling real realy low the oil presure will aslo be very low.
You may have warped a head, I doubt it though. Depends on how long u drove the car when it over heated
You may have warped a head, I doubt it though. Depends on how long u drove the car when it over heated
i just had the heads resurfaced when i changed the gasket and before any of this happend i used to have my oil pressure at the first line at idle now its barley above the red and i didnt drive it that long once i saw my temp going up i shut it off and coasted to a safe spot to get towed i started it today it sounded great at first then i started missing
if any of you guys run your car with the cap off do you get alot of steam going in the radiator from the steam tube where it blows the water out if the water is above the steam hose fitting
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Next question, what type of heads are on the car, And has any work been done on them.
As of right now it sounds like you still have lots of air in your coolant system, When all the air is out, The only thing that will come out of the return line from the back of the heads will be water/coolant.
As of right now it sounds like you still have lots of air in your coolant system, When all the air is out, The only thing that will come out of the return line from the back of the heads will be water/coolant.
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yeah i had the heads ported and polished and a sonic checker was used during porting i pulled the car back apart this weekend no blown gasket but oil in the water it looked like where the heads gasket blew before the cylinder might be cracked im sending the heads in to be pressure checked today and there was tons of metal in the motor so i have a whole other motor im gonna build all due to a electric waterpump i even called csr and asked them why they dont make left handed threads ot loctite the impeller to the shaft it just seems stupid to me that they would thread someting on that would spin off the way it rotates so guys beware!!the tech claimed that the shaft should have had loctite on it
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