Why would there be coolant dripping from my exhaust if I didn't have a bhg? I just finished pulling off my head, and I was expecting to find this terrible old stock head gasket. But instead... the thing looks to be brand spanking new.
The engine I bought only had 120K on it, and I just got it going to drive it home, and I took it for the 600 mile journey... and made it home and when I woke up the next morning there was this pool of coolant in my driveway.. in fact two seperate pools of it.
One pool was dripping right out of my open header (yes I ran it open header for the ride home because my exhaust was falling off.. that is getting fixed as soon as I get it back to running). The coolant was only dripping from the tubes running from the last three cylinders.. so I immediately said to myself that it was that wonderful old number 6 cylinder.. especially since this thing wasn't running the EGR (previous owner blocked it off, and that is something I am reinstalling as well).
The other pool of coolant was coming from towards the front of the engine... and I personally couldn't track down where that was coming from... it was on the power steering side... and it was dripping from the top of the engine down, and was falling right off the power steering pump itself.. I really don't believe that it was my water pump.
The overflow tank went empty close to 30 minutes before I got home... I kept driving just to make it home... it was 4am and the car wasn't overheating.
I knew that when that overflow tank went empty.. that something was wrong... and I knew I was going to have a wonderful Christmas break trying to fix this thing.
Now let me inform you also... that this engine wasn't put back together all too perfectly. I noticed quite a few things that have really made me scratch my head and wonder how exactly it lived through a 600 mile trip. For one the injector wiring definetely did not alternate connector colors as they should... explains that dreaded check engine light/misfire. That and one of the head bolts... definetely was a bit rounded out (wanna have yourself a good time, yeah, try getting out a head bolt that doesn't have much of a hex head left on it).
Could it be possible that if the head wasn't torqued down correctly that I could have had symptoms of bhg?
Just food for thought. Thanks you all.
The engine I bought only had 120K on it, and I just got it going to drive it home, and I took it for the 600 mile journey... and made it home and when I woke up the next morning there was this pool of coolant in my driveway.. in fact two seperate pools of it.
One pool was dripping right out of my open header (yes I ran it open header for the ride home because my exhaust was falling off.. that is getting fixed as soon as I get it back to running). The coolant was only dripping from the tubes running from the last three cylinders.. so I immediately said to myself that it was that wonderful old number 6 cylinder.. especially since this thing wasn't running the EGR (previous owner blocked it off, and that is something I am reinstalling as well).
The other pool of coolant was coming from towards the front of the engine... and I personally couldn't track down where that was coming from... it was on the power steering side... and it was dripping from the top of the engine down, and was falling right off the power steering pump itself.. I really don't believe that it was my water pump.
The overflow tank went empty close to 30 minutes before I got home... I kept driving just to make it home... it was 4am and the car wasn't overheating.
I knew that when that overflow tank went empty.. that something was wrong... and I knew I was going to have a wonderful Christmas break trying to fix this thing.
Now let me inform you also... that this engine wasn't put back together all too perfectly. I noticed quite a few things that have really made me scratch my head and wonder how exactly it lived through a 600 mile trip. For one the injector wiring definetely did not alternate connector colors as they should... explains that dreaded check engine light/misfire. That and one of the head bolts... definetely was a bit rounded out (wanna have yourself a good time, yeah, try getting out a head bolt that doesn't have much of a hex head left on it).
Could it be possible that if the head wasn't torqued down correctly that I could have had symptoms of bhg?
Just food for thought. Thanks you all.