buy my motor and call it a day
time to pull the heads off again...
Or you could go to Napa and buy a $65 "block tester" and test to see if you have an combustion gases in your coolant @ your radiator. This could tell you if you have a cracked head/block, bad head gasket, or warped heads/block. Better than pulling heads. Also you could check compression or pull some spark plugs and look to see if the tip is white due to burning coolant.....
The kit is expensive but works well. How much water have you added? If it is over the maximum capacity, and it is not on the floor, then there is really only one other possiblity. Headgasket time.
If you're continuing to add water/coolant and it keeps going down, it's going somewhere. If it isn't a headgasket, maybe a cracked head. Is the coolant level stable now or is it still going down?
Buy the kit at NAPA or drain the oil and watch it come out. You will be able to see the coolant draining out. Don't drive the car till you figure this out.
If the coolant level is no longer going down then ignore everything I said.
come on...
Andrew! Call me before you go postal. Lou
Hmmm, When the car is off the coolant level stays the same. Its low after a few heat cycles and the car cools.
If the head has a crack would there be white smoke out of the rear of the car? and a bad idle?
Thanks for the help
Almost went postal for a sec...thanks Lou!!!! LOL :biggrin: :biggrin:
Yes. If you are losing coolant, and have white smoke, the union between the head and the block has been compromised-cracke block, cracked head, blown headgasket. Get under the car, and drain the oil. See what comes out.
Don't use a block sealer on your car.
:biggrin: .. you haven't owned your car longer then a year, to be able to go Postal.. wait in till you hit 14 years of the same GN like me lol..
you will figure out the problem soon.. if not, your water company will love you :wink:
I have had my car for over a year...almost three years. But does not hold water to your 14. LOL.
I dont use tap water on my car, it gets the bottled stuff from the delivery man!!!! LMFAO.....I am rich like that
blown headgasket. Get under the car, and drain the oil. See what comes out.
Mountain spring water i see .. Damn, mine just uses rusty old tap water.. (i have a filter system on our drinking system lol).
your getting there bud.. don't let it get to you.. and lastly, DON'T SELL HER ..
yep... i think i talked about selling mine ...... let's see 100000000000000000000000000000 times LOL..