akc Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Well I finally found that little leak in my radiator hose. The bad news is the hose finally (after about a week) got a bigger hole and my 16 year old son was driving alone. (we were planning on changing out all the hoses next week when he changed the CV joints? and the exhaust manifold gasket) The engine never registered as overheating because well there was no water. Any how by the time he got home it was still steaming and the exhaust is cloudy. The car still starts and the engine sound OK but. it leaves a huge black streak on the ground behind the exhaust and the exhaust is cloudy. The water is dissappearing from the radiator and the oil is dissappearing as well. (it does not seem that the water is in the oil ) there is also a small drips of water coming from where the engine sits where it is coming out I am not sure but is dropping from the timing belts, oil pan and oil filter. It also has a whistling sound coming from the engine. It does NOT clang (I have had a car with bent rods) When you turn it on it seems to instantly loose about a 1/4 qt oil and a qt of water. Of course my resident mechanic is gone for the week. HOW bad do you think he toasted the engine? He can fix the heads but if it is more then that I think she will need to find a new home. Do you think he might of warped or cracked anything??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralDisorder Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Probably didn't hurt the engine at all. Change the head gaskets and mill the heads flat. Should be fine. If it had got REALLY hot it wouldn't have driven due to detonation. So it didn't get as hot as I've had them before. GD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akc Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 Thanks that makes me feel much better. Hubby is off for the weekend and was NOT happy to hear about this over the phone of course he is thinking what did she toast the engine? last year I overheated our 52 dodge and blew the motor they blame it on me but really it was not my fault a rod cap fell off and well......it was not good for the engine . of course this was on the busiest day of my husbands work he could not leave and I was stranded on I-5 just a couple of miles from seattle in a do not park zone at 8 in the morning 1 1/2 hours from home. It was kind of funny I took care of things and later in the afternoon called him and he asked where are you broke down at? Ever since then when he is really busy if I call he usually asks what did you break. It has been one of those years for our cars. I guess the good news is he had already scheduled time to work on it? We have the parts for the CV joints and the manifold we just need to get some more gaskets and take it in to that nice little machine shop that did such a great job on our dodge. since the economy has down turned it has a really fast turnover. He just needs to schedule another day to put it all together and beg and plead with my brother in law with the shop if he can come over (at least our dodge is finally home (it sat there a year before it was all put back together after the engine rebuilt (he works alot) if he can get it over to the brother inlaws he's got a lift it will go pretty fast (it was not in the shop the whole year mostly out back he would wheel it in everytime he needed to work on it and alot of the time when he came to work on it someone else already had a car on the lift so he would help them on theirs. (it is kind of one of those family and friends kind of places someone in the family or there friends always has something over there. They have 20 acres and well you can find some really cool cars when you mow the blackberry bushes. like the local fire deptments first fire truck and some other cool gems. It has been in the family a long time and occasionally one of the finds (from the fields is in the shop and getting a new lease on life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralDisorder Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Make sure you tell him that cracks between the valves are NORMAL for these engines. Both heads will have cracks there - it's a gaurantee. But it doesn't affect the engine any. GD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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