Can't beleive it. This car's been off the road now for 3 years (after I dropped a valve which took out my last motor). Been building up my new motor, working out numerous kinks etc. (opti, water pump, O2 sensors, cam timing etc.), finally today, got it on the road, the thing screamed! So much so that it sheared the 2 bolts off that hold the power steering pump on and caused me to lose my belt around 7,500RPM.
Anyway, long story short, fixed the bolts etc. got the car back on the road, hit it getting on the freeway. After a hard pull through 3 gears, noticed the motor tone changed a bit. Figured a plug wire came loose etc. Then, when pulling off the freeway to get back to the house, I revved it to see how responsive it was, (was hoping it was just loaded up) looked behind me and a puff of white smoke.
Pulled off the freeway, the smoke got much worse. Tried to creep home but the temp was rising. Shut the motor down when it got to about 200/210 degrees. Called a tow truck. When I tried to re-start, it sounds like it's hydro'd as it won't turn over.
Can motors hydro when you blow a ghasket? There is no way this motor got hot enough to lock up. I really don't think I have any damaged valvetrain as I have been there before and you get a lot of backfiring out of the exhaust or through the intake and you can barely keep it running. This motor would have run fine if I let it.
Could I have damaged anything else if I hydro'd the motor? If I had not stretched my wife's patience by running into all these problems I would go ahead and diagnose but she deserves some attention after all the time this has taken.
Any adivce would be apprecaited. Baffled as to how I could have blown a head ghasket, blown up a bunch of things, thrown rods etc. but never a headgasket.
Sorry for the long post, thanks in advance for any helpful advise!
Anyway, long story short, fixed the bolts etc. got the car back on the road, hit it getting on the freeway. After a hard pull through 3 gears, noticed the motor tone changed a bit. Figured a plug wire came loose etc. Then, when pulling off the freeway to get back to the house, I revved it to see how responsive it was, (was hoping it was just loaded up) looked behind me and a puff of white smoke.
Pulled off the freeway, the smoke got much worse. Tried to creep home but the temp was rising. Shut the motor down when it got to about 200/210 degrees. Called a tow truck. When I tried to re-start, it sounds like it's hydro'd as it won't turn over.
Can motors hydro when you blow a ghasket? There is no way this motor got hot enough to lock up. I really don't think I have any damaged valvetrain as I have been there before and you get a lot of backfiring out of the exhaust or through the intake and you can barely keep it running. This motor would have run fine if I let it.
Could I have damaged anything else if I hydro'd the motor? If I had not stretched my wife's patience by running into all these problems I would go ahead and diagnose but she deserves some attention after all the time this has taken.
Any adivce would be apprecaited. Baffled as to how I could have blown a head ghasket, blown up a bunch of things, thrown rods etc. but never a headgasket.
Sorry for the long post, thanks in advance for any helpful advise!
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