The fun of the day..

[CrazyM]

SO.....

I get everything ready to go to, start 'er up and it does just that. So I get my helper for holding my RPM's at 1800-2200 so I'm under the engine making sure things aren't leaking, watching coolant level and toping up as I go.

After a couple minutes of being under the hood I notice I'm seeing oil leaking from the oil cap, take it off and I can hear air coming up through, and notice I'm not hearing much for exhaust noise. So I tell 'em to shut it down. I unbolt my downpipe from the muffler side of my exhaust look in it nothing, look in the muffler, and I find a nice lil rag! So I then restart the car. PURE white smoke pumping out as soon I do this! Doesn't go away at all after about a min so I assume from all the combustion pressures I blew the head gasket or something.

Get it all taken apart and head gasket looks mint, but cylinders have Antifreeze on them, and there's some mixed oil\antifreeze on the combustion chamber side of the head.

I was just going to try changing head gaskets, 'till I noticed i have a couple blown valve stem seals now..

What else is there that is also possibly shot now? With there being no noticeable spots from the head gasket being blown, is it possible that the head cracked from the pressure?

 

[XiKeiyaZI]

.......MMMMMMMMMMM.. Interesting.

Best way to find out is to have it tested.

 

[ramsack]

the coolant on the cylinders just happens when you take the head off. especially if the engine didn't have time to dry out before ripping it apart. the oil the was introduced most likely happened from blowing the valve stem seals from that rag being in the exhaust.