I have a 1987 camero Z-28 iroc and has been sitting up for the past 3-months or so the starter was bad and the moneys tight! I couldn't get the starter, with out dropping the exaust ! to make a long story short I got the starter off and had to rebuild the selinoid the car cranks and runs but as soon as i started the car I saw water draining from the engine I traced it down to find out it's leaking from the intake above the valve cover looking at the engine, i'am stumped how this could happen ... was not leaking before!!! any body have this knowledge???
2006-08-09 17:25:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Did it freeze and pop out a freeze plug and you let the car get hot and blow a head gasket? No, it's a heater core line. Cant tell the motor looks fuzzy from here.
2006-08-09 17:46:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What happens is the gaskets will break down over a period of time from chemicals that are in the coolant and oil. Not to metion
the expanding and contracting of metal when it gets hot or cold.
Replace the intake gasket for starters. Do yourself a favor and
make darn sure you keep the intake vally clean. Use a shop
vac to suck out all of the gasket debris after you scrape the gasket surfaces. Take a quart of clean oil, and dump it all through the vally befrore you put the intake manifold back on.
Change the oil BEFORE you start the engine, and replace all
lost coolant. I would do a flush after you get it running.
ASE cert 22 yrs
2006-08-09 17:42:05 · answer #2 · answered by race21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am going to say blown head gasket or cracked cylinder head. My stay away from Caravan had a compression leak led to with the help of a few issues, a cracked cylinder head and corrosion, both which allowed water into the cylinder, and compression into the cooling device. the clarification your temperature gauge jumps round is because there is air wallet contained in the device, and at the same time as they hit the temperature sensor, the gauge fluctuates. I see you had the radiator cap off. at the same time as that's off and the engine's operating, position your hand tight over the hollow. in case you sense a pulsation, that is yet another indication of a blown gasket or compression leak. I wold challenge a wager that the oil substitute had no longer something to do with it. Foam contained in the coolant is yet another indication. i have heard that synthetic oil in a higher-mileage engine may reason complications like oil leaking the position it under no circumstances did in the previous because synthetic oil is slipperier. Frankly, my "analysis" can be a blown head gasket. it truly is a lot more effective effortless than cracked blocks or heads. merely about each vehicle I actually have ever owned has blown a gasket, and the Caravan replaced into the in straightforward words one with a cracked head. That became out to be a undemanding difficulty with that motor. nice job on the video. reliable theory. maximum folk don't have considered that. they could have tried in ineffective to describe the poblem.
2016-11-23 18:42:20 · answer #3 · answered by harrow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem was probably already there. Maybe your car sitting for 3 months and nothing circulating was just enough time for something to rot out. I once bought a 79 El Camino that had been in storage for 7 years. It ran fine at first, but after a few weeks anything related to fluids started having problems. I had to change the radiator, gas tank, brake lines, etc. Just a thought.
2006-08-09 17:34:38 · answer #4 · answered by rob 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you blew the head gasket. I think better is that you blew the intake gasket or maybe even cracked the intake. The intake does have water ports in it. Try replacing the intake gasket first. A good rule of thumb " If the oil looks more like chocolate milk, than oil, meaning foamy, and thin, brown not like oil, then yes you blew a head gasket or cracked the head between ports, or jackets.
2006-08-09 17:34:12 · answer #5 · answered by thugtwin1@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
in this order from bottom to top you have eng. block heads valve cover in the middle you have intake manifold i can't see water coming from ubove valve cover there is nothing there however in the head (i think that might be what you are talking about ) you have frezze plugs that do rust out there easy and cheap to replace also you dont have to remove exhaust to replace starter just time and a second elbow
2006-08-09 17:36:32 · answer #6 · answered by k dog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things like that happen when they sit for a while. I've got a project car that I work on when I can, stuff is always going bad on it from sitting....can't explain why...
2006-08-09 17:34:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
firs make sure that you did not through the timing belt or chain ,.... then look inbetween the heads and the block for the tell tail sign of carbon burn ,a sut or blow by .. and it would not hurt to consult chilltons for that year make and modle hope i could help
2006-08-09 17:35:45 · answer #8 · answered by Ashley K 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Chevy's , ya gotta love the quality.
2006-08-09 17:32:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋