Derrack
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- Nov 5, 2009
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juneau,
Alaska
I'm talking to some people about this but am looking for more opinions. If any of you live near Port Orchard Washington and might have a parts car or a good brain I could pick send me a pm.
Here's a quick copy of the low downs.
As of right now my car was boosting at twelve psi. As to how it occurred I was driving to my school when the car had a loss of power feeling like a lack of fuel. You know, hit the gas and loss power. My temperature gauge was fine while this was happening. Anyways, so when I popped my hood I could hear the oil popping. The coolant was empty and I figured a hose came disconnected. I didn't have the time to mess with it at the moment. So I hitched a ride to school from a friendly automobile and came back when I was finished with my flight.
It turns out the hose going to the oil cooler burst. It was a half round burst on an elbow. I think that's from a pressure surge. I checked the coolant color when I bought the car and it was green. But it could have been diluted and froze, causing the blown hose. So I went and got a hose. I replaced it on the side of the road and started to fill up the antifreeze. After two gallons I figured it was almost full. At two and a half I knew something was wrong. I didn't check far enough back on the car for leaks. I found out I had an exhaust leek by the rear tires... because there was antifreeze coming out. I got it towed home and when I stripped it down there was gasket material in the top of the head, by the cams. When I pulled the head bolts there was more on the number nine and ten bolts. When I pulled the head there was antifreeze in the one and four cylinders. A chunk missing above the two and three cylinders between two collant passages and the number two cylinder dish area. The chunk was shallow and doesn't seem to have damaged the cylinder wall or piston. Must have been from the heat because there was some aluminum fused to the number ten head *or was it nine? the top* bolt. And a little on the top deck of the block through the gasket. So minuscule On the block deck that a gasket scraper knocked it off. The piston head and cylinder walls look fine and dandy.
When I say it over heated I'm talking some serious heat. The spark plug wire's plastic posts and lower foam boots melted and fused around the spark plug like a puddle, but still attached to the top boot and post. A filter on my valve cover was extremely droopy. Oil baked under the valve color, black on one half. The cams and such are a very dark brown. A sticker on my oil filter shriveled up. All the freeze plugs are good. I think the coolant flowed out of the system faster than it heated up and my temperature sensor was detecting hot air.
I'm Fixing the obvious and hoping the rest of the car took care of itself. I doubt it. Probably going to have leaky everything. My funds are so tight at the moment that I might be a couple gaskets away from fixing the problem. So I might just re-use some. I got a hold of a person in the Everet area that has a stock head he'll give me for one hundred and twenty bucks. I'm going to need to find a valve cover soon because of some cracks around the bolt holes. Some one torqued them down too hard previously and fixed it with JB weld.
The car was driving great before this happened. I was told the bottom end was stock rebuilt ten thousand miles ago. After I bought the car I noticed some Mickey Mouse stuff, pointing too someone taking it out of the car at home. I hope it wasn't a garage rebuild. Buying something else is not an option.
Got any ideas on any other reason this happened other then this? I need to cover any bases I can to try and get this resolved in one shot. This is my daily driver. I wasn't planning on messing with it in the aftermarket sense till I have the job thing squared away.
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Here's a quick copy of the low downs.
As of right now my car was boosting at twelve psi. As to how it occurred I was driving to my school when the car had a loss of power feeling like a lack of fuel. You know, hit the gas and loss power. My temperature gauge was fine while this was happening. Anyways, so when I popped my hood I could hear the oil popping. The coolant was empty and I figured a hose came disconnected. I didn't have the time to mess with it at the moment. So I hitched a ride to school from a friendly automobile and came back when I was finished with my flight.
It turns out the hose going to the oil cooler burst. It was a half round burst on an elbow. I think that's from a pressure surge. I checked the coolant color when I bought the car and it was green. But it could have been diluted and froze, causing the blown hose. So I went and got a hose. I replaced it on the side of the road and started to fill up the antifreeze. After two gallons I figured it was almost full. At two and a half I knew something was wrong. I didn't check far enough back on the car for leaks. I found out I had an exhaust leek by the rear tires... because there was antifreeze coming out. I got it towed home and when I stripped it down there was gasket material in the top of the head, by the cams. When I pulled the head bolts there was more on the number nine and ten bolts. When I pulled the head there was antifreeze in the one and four cylinders. A chunk missing above the two and three cylinders between two collant passages and the number two cylinder dish area. The chunk was shallow and doesn't seem to have damaged the cylinder wall or piston. Must have been from the heat because there was some aluminum fused to the number ten head *or was it nine? the top* bolt. And a little on the top deck of the block through the gasket. So minuscule On the block deck that a gasket scraper knocked it off. The piston head and cylinder walls look fine and dandy.
When I say it over heated I'm talking some serious heat. The spark plug wire's plastic posts and lower foam boots melted and fused around the spark plug like a puddle, but still attached to the top boot and post. A filter on my valve cover was extremely droopy. Oil baked under the valve color, black on one half. The cams and such are a very dark brown. A sticker on my oil filter shriveled up. All the freeze plugs are good. I think the coolant flowed out of the system faster than it heated up and my temperature sensor was detecting hot air.
I'm Fixing the obvious and hoping the rest of the car took care of itself. I doubt it. Probably going to have leaky everything. My funds are so tight at the moment that I might be a couple gaskets away from fixing the problem. So I might just re-use some. I got a hold of a person in the Everet area that has a stock head he'll give me for one hundred and twenty bucks. I'm going to need to find a valve cover soon because of some cracks around the bolt holes. Some one torqued them down too hard previously and fixed it with JB weld.
The car was driving great before this happened. I was told the bottom end was stock rebuilt ten thousand miles ago. After I bought the car I noticed some Mickey Mouse stuff, pointing too someone taking it out of the car at home. I hope it wasn't a garage rebuild. Buying something else is not an option.
Got any ideas on any other reason this happened other then this? I need to cover any bases I can to try and get this resolved in one shot. This is my daily driver. I wasn't planning on messing with it in the aftermarket sense till I have the job thing squared away.
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