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Scotty, I've been trying to find the vac leak! It's been there a while.

I was hoping it wasn't the head gaskets, but i'm leaning towards that because i let it idle a while and when i turned it off i heard gurgling.. i opened the overflow cap and it was bubbling and smelled like exhaust.

Anybody wanna come up to Canada and change my head gaskets? lol

I'm making a car dealer a website in the coming days and I'm hoping I can convince him to pay me in a vehicle rather than $$$
 


if your not up to swapping the engine just yet, try some blue devil head gasket and head sealer, stuff works. i used it myself.

my car since i got it was always pushing coolant out the rad cap and over flowing the over flow tank, was low 2 to 3 inches every day in the rad. and i had bubbles in the rad, cap off when revved. blue devil stopped all that crap. the exhaust even smells better.
 
the heads wont hiss like that, they would piss coolant before you hear that.

thats a broken vac line somewhere. check behind the intake manifold where the brake booster and hvac line plug in, the part on the front right where two lines merge to one, and the rest of them. the evap line also off the TB.
 
Mine also gurgled in the reservoir after I turned it off. It ultimately ended up being my head gasket that went bad but I didn't have a "visible" coolant leak. All my coolant burned off through the exhaust I guess cuz I was always low on coolant but never saw a drip anywhere. But I also have an 04, don't know if that makes a difference or not. Wouldn't think so...
 
xDonny said:
Scotty, I've been trying to find the vac leak! It's been there a while.

I was hoping it wasn't the head gaskets, but i'm leaning towards that because i let it idle a while and when i turned it off i heard gurgling.. i opened the overflow cap and it was bubbling and smelled like exhaust.

Anybody wanna come up to Canada and change my head gaskets? lol

I'm making a car dealer a website in the coming days and I'm hoping I can convince him to pay me in a vehicle rather than $$$
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Doing head gaskets isn't that hard really, its about $160 worth of gaskets, head bolts, head gaskets obviously, lower intake gasket, upper intake gasket, some injector orings and some valve cover gaskets. All you really need is a torque wrench an angle gauge and some basic sockets.
 
Slick2500 said:
Doing head gaskets isn't that hard really, its about $160 worth of gaskets, head bolts, head gaskets obviously, lower intake gasket, upper intake gasket, some injector orings and some valve cover gaskets. All you really need is a torque wrench an angle gauge and some basic sockets.
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^^^ This. When I changed mine out, I also went and took my heads to a shop to get milled or however you say it, magnafluxed and got a valve job done. Put everything back together and runs like new.
 


I'll give the blue devil stuff a shot, I'm strapped for cash so even $160 is out of my price range at the moment.
 
Being up in Canada its gonna be interesting, some chain of auto stores has to have it. You might have to order it online then shipped to store. Just an idea

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Yeah Canada sucks for everything Auto.. Canadian Tire.. nothing even close to it.

Does anybody have a link to a guide to get to the gaskets? I want to make some gaskets with some silicone-like stuff.
 
Haha gaskets for the head, they sell this stuff you squirt onto the head where the gasket is supposed to go and glue it on, in case the head is warped
 
ahhh, this stuff is one brand. and a few others.

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to fix a blown head gasket your tearing the heads off the exhaust manifolds, the whole top of the engine has to come off.

pretty much this far down.

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luckyg817 said:
^^^ This. When I changed mine out, I also went and took my heads to a shop to get milled or however you say it, magnafluxed and got a valve job done. Put everything back together and runs like new.
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Decked. Magnafluxed and decked which allows them to check for cracks, and mill the mating surfaces in case the faces were warped.

Honestly it's not that bad of a job, and could be done in an afternoon if you had the heads ready to go.

My only question is how did you not smell it or see the smoke? Or even the temp gauge on the dash?

None the less I would clean your MAF as well in case any went into the intake.
 
Just putting this out there, we got a grand prix in at work that the same thing happened, coolant leaked out and they overheated it until, like your case, it wouldn't go any further. We tore it down to the block and saw little to no signs of a gasket failure, but continued with the job. New head, and intake gaskets, still the same issue, misfire on cyl 4 and 6, and running very rough at idle. Smooths out at higher rpm's though. After the whole job, the same problem occurred. A compression test discovered little to no compression on cyl 6 and very low on 4, and not even enough on all others. It seems overheating the motor til it just won't move any further ends in melted rings.

Oh and it also had a bunch of air blowing into the overflow tank, but the cooling system only had like a quart of drain-able coolant, and the cap was defective.
 
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