Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:18:25 -0800 From: TimeRangernopsam.com Subject: Re: Help, blown headgasket and yoohoo!
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:15:08 GMT, bandhartnopsameja.com wrote: > A few weeks ago, posted a message about an 87 900 S 16 V (non turbo), >blowing white smoke. Didnt get any responses, but I have searched Deja >News for the relevant posts on head gaskets, etc. Anyway, finally got to >the car this weekend, and got the head off, taking it down to a shop >today to have it checked. However, Im really worried about the engine. >The headgasket going, apparently, got coolant into the oil, and there is >brown sticky yoohoo stuff all thru out the head, and of course, the >engine. It all started, driving the car back from the parts store, >suddenly started spewing white smoke. However, I dont believe the car >was driven a very long distance (few minutes, couple of miles) with the >coolant being sucked into the #4 piston. >Anyway, my question is, is the engine most likely toast? If not, how do >I get that brown sludge out of the block and timing chain? Please help! >Dave Dave, I am sorry to say it, but you are looking at an engine tear-down and cleaning. The big problem is that ethelene-glycol coolant will carry dirt and sludge in places that the oil cannot. What you have now is a crankcase full of a very abrasive slurry. The biggest danger always seems to be to the crank bearings. -- "Our eyes and hands and feet will give us the same assistance in doing mischief as in doing good; but it would not therefore be better for the world, that all mankind were blind and lame. Arms are not to be laid aside by honest men, because carried by assassins and ruffians; they are to be used the rather for this very reason." -George Campbell (1719-1796)
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