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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 1:03 am
by ciper
Usually a leaking head gasket wont leak to the outside. It will be more of a small spot where exhaust pushes the coolant on the power stroke and coolant is sucked into the combustion chamber on the intake stroke. The legacy I mentioned we plan to dump currently only over heats after stressing it for 30 seconds or more. If you drive around like a grandma its fine.
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 5:59 am
by mikec
Oh crap.... That might explain why I sometimes smell the oh-so-sweet smell of coolant after flogging the car.
Does the pull the rad cap and look for bubbles trick work on a turbo? I really hope it does and I don't see anything when I check tomorrow.
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 6:47 am
by THAWA
ciper wrote:Usually a leaking head gasket wont leak to the outside. It will be more of a small spot where exhaust pushes the coolant on the power stroke and coolant is sucked into the combustion chamber on the intake stroke. The legacy I mentioned we plan to dump currently only over heats after stressing it for 30 seconds or more. If you drive around like a grandma its fine.
this sounds like my car. ONly time this doesnt happen is when I leave the heat on and dont let the revs drop for more thana min or two
Cripes. What is a more specific way to tell if it's the head gaskets?
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:46 pm
by entirelyturbo
Have your coolant "sniffed" or tested for hydrocarbons from exhaust... If there are hydrocarbons present, that means exhaust fumes are leaking into your coolant, and about the only way for that to happen is a blown headgasket...
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:51 pm
by mikec
subyluvr2212 wrote:Have your coolant "sniffed" or tested for hydrocarbons from exhaust... If there are hydrocarbons present, that means exhaust fumes are leaking into your coolant, and about the only way for that to happen is a blown headgasket...
That's my mission for tomorrow then. An upside would be that I can get all those other seals and whatnot replaced.
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:06 pm
by THAWA
Sounds technical, I think I'll just baby it until I can get a breaker bar to replace the water pump then see if that doesn't fix it. If it doesn't I'm going to replace them. Then if that doesn't fix it, I don't know what will :\
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 8:53 pm
by ciper
I suggest changing your coolant if you havent in a long time them do as subyluvr2212 said.
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 1:57 am
by THAWA
Well I was trying to take off the timing belt cover and part of the plastic one of the bolts on the passangerside of the cover cracked, right where the nut is supposed to be, so the nut was free to move with the bolt. I tried pressing the cracked pieces together but still didn't want to work correctly. So I bent the cover up a lil bit after i got te other two bolts off, it snapped, and now I've got a lil piece of the outer cover stuck on to the inner cover. Is there anything I should do whenI go to put the cover back together? I'm thinking duct tape until I can go get both piece from the junk yard or whatever. Anyone have any other ideas?
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:02 pm
by 0perose
there are lots of people over at usmb.net running their older cars without covers.. who needs 'em, they just get in the way!
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:32 am
by THAWA
Like a year and a half later
That engine is gone myfriend.
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 2:10 am
by 0perose
yeah I was browsing the past