I brought this car home during the summer just to find out my Cooling system kept on pressurizing none stop and shooting coolant out of the reservoir. Did a compression check with no hope.New radiator cap and no hope. Changed my water pump and radiator and no hope. Changed ALL my hoses (Radiator top and bottom hose, Rear heater in and out hose, The small front and rear bypass hose, and ran new throttle body coolant hose too)
It did not help. Ran to all 3 nearest NADA to find a coolant test kit but none of them had it and would have to wait (Seeing that the nearest is a 30 minute drive was not worth waiting. Plus I wanted to change my gasket with a better one anyways) So I started pulling my head. Pulled my head hoping to see a blown section but did not see any rip in the stock gasket that was really noticeable.
Only thing different was cylinder 1 to 5 the piston was dark but cylinder 6 the outer side seems to be clean. Don't know why. I was wondering if all BHG motor MUST have visible blown section or can it be tiny? I notice the rear side is a bit wet. I know a bit of coolant might of have spilled on but I left the coolant draining a few days back in all the ports and hoses.
I also notice the valves on cylinder 6 is wet!!!
I do not know if this help but it could also be from me lifting my head that caused this but I know some of the coolant cut out section of the gasket has this center piece in it. Those pieces are push up and not flat.
Cylinder 1 and 2
Cylinder 3 and 4
Cylinder 5 and 6
Head cylinder 4,5 and 6... I notice the valves on 6 is wet. I doubt coolant can touch that when removing the head.
Head cylinder 1,2, and 3
Added pics
1,2,3
4,5,6
It did not help. Ran to all 3 nearest NADA to find a coolant test kit but none of them had it and would have to wait (Seeing that the nearest is a 30 minute drive was not worth waiting. Plus I wanted to change my gasket with a better one anyways) So I started pulling my head. Pulled my head hoping to see a blown section but did not see any rip in the stock gasket that was really noticeable.
Only thing different was cylinder 1 to 5 the piston was dark but cylinder 6 the outer side seems to be clean. Don't know why. I was wondering if all BHG motor MUST have visible blown section or can it be tiny? I notice the rear side is a bit wet. I know a bit of coolant might of have spilled on but I left the coolant draining a few days back in all the ports and hoses.
I also notice the valves on cylinder 6 is wet!!!
I do not know if this help but it could also be from me lifting my head that caused this but I know some of the coolant cut out section of the gasket has this center piece in it. Those pieces are push up and not flat.
Cylinder 1 and 2
Cylinder 3 and 4
Cylinder 5 and 6
Head cylinder 4,5 and 6... I notice the valves on 6 is wet. I doubt coolant can touch that when removing the head.
Head cylinder 1,2, and 3
Added pics
1,2,3
4,5,6
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