I was coming home from Chicago tonight and came across a Z06 Corvette...well of course when I got beside him I got on it, but then a sudden loss of power came and then I saw tons of white smoke come out the back of my car...uh oh
Pulled over and popped the hood...sure enough around the driver side header and surrounding areas it was all wet and smoking...I was about 70 miles away from home when this happened at 12 midnight with no cell phone or anything...so I decided to "attempt" to drive home since I knew the motor was going to be pulled anyway...
well I drove home and white smoke was pretty much steadily coming out the back of my car and it was driving OK but you could tell something wasn't right...I kept on eye on my water temp gauge to make sure I wasn't overheating and kept an eye on the dash for the oil light to come on...everything was fine and temp never went over 165...I just opened the hood again in my garage and there's water and oil all over the backside of the engine compartment...downpipe, headers, valve covers, and firewall are all soaked with oil and coolant...surprisingly the overflow tank is still at the same level as before and it wasn't bubbling or didn't have any oil in it...it looked normal
so this is a headgasket eh? I am not sure which cylinder it blew on yet...but I guess people were right about slowly detonating a headgasket over time and then one day you get on the boost just a tad like I did and wham there goes the gasket...oh well now I can fully rebuild this motor this winter...did I do any major damage by driving home like I did? I figured if the motor didn't overheat that it should be acceptable just to get me home...what's all going to have to be replaced?
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Pulled over and popped the hood...sure enough around the driver side header and surrounding areas it was all wet and smoking...I was about 70 miles away from home when this happened at 12 midnight with no cell phone or anything...so I decided to "attempt" to drive home since I knew the motor was going to be pulled anyway...
well I drove home and white smoke was pretty much steadily coming out the back of my car and it was driving OK but you could tell something wasn't right...I kept on eye on my water temp gauge to make sure I wasn't overheating and kept an eye on the dash for the oil light to come on...everything was fine and temp never went over 165...I just opened the hood again in my garage and there's water and oil all over the backside of the engine compartment...downpipe, headers, valve covers, and firewall are all soaked with oil and coolant...surprisingly the overflow tank is still at the same level as before and it wasn't bubbling or didn't have any oil in it...it looked normal
so this is a headgasket eh? I am not sure which cylinder it blew on yet...but I guess people were right about slowly detonating a headgasket over time and then one day you get on the boost just a tad like I did and wham there goes the gasket...oh well now I can fully rebuild this motor this winter...did I do any major damage by driving home like I did? I figured if the motor didn't overheat that it should be acceptable just to get me home...what's all going to have to be replaced?