Who can I trust? I need a Buick repairman
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Really sorry to hear about your troubles. I just bought and put in an engine, it spit a rod shortly there after @ 14# of boost!.............getting ready to tear it apart and figure out why this happened...........Keep your chin up.......I'm trying to do the same.
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Likewise...... Robby, If you knew how much money I have spent on this car since I bought it you would throw up!!
You are doing the right thing by getting the right people to help you( hoffers trans). I have seen it all with these cars so any time you need help just ask. :biggrin:
As far as how much you are about to spend and on what.... I think your gonna need headgaskets and at a minimum have the front cover ported and blueprinted if not have the bearing cleances checked. No telling what Conrads set them up at.
You are doing the right thing by getting the right people to help you( hoffers trans). I have seen it all with these cars so any time you need help just ask. :biggrin:As far as how much you are about to spend and on what.... I think your gonna need headgaskets and at a minimum have the front cover ported and blueprinted if not have the bearing cleances checked. No telling what Conrads set them up at.
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Any word yet ????
Ed walked next door Friday to get an update, but Robert had already left for the weekend. However I did speak with Ed on Tuesday and he told me Robert did not think there was anything wrong with my headgaskets. He said maybe radiator cap is my problem for loss of coolant. He also told me Robert had found a bad sparkplug and that my tuning needed quite a bit of help. He told Ed "man this thing hauls a$$". So it was a releif on the gaskets issue anyway, so far. Maybe Ed can get us an update tomorrow.
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Yeah, Hopefully he did a leakdown and/or compression test. That would tell you the story on the headgaskets. Sounds like it is on the way to being right. Good luck. Jeremy
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So whats the deal with your car????
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Any update??
We will see?
Well I went and picked her up yesterday. She seemed to be running better, no slight fludder at WOT. Oil pressure now is 19 psi at idel. However, when I left for my hour ride home temp stayed at 178. About half way through my trip I saw a very slight increase in temp but no more than 185. But I was on an interstate for the whole ride. Then as I got into a little start and stop traffic, the temp started going way up, 230 range. I got it home popped the rad. cap and coolent was about a gallon low. This means I'm still loosing coolent because the mechanic changed front timing cover and put fresh coolent in alone spark plugs, oil and oil pump.
I spoke with mechanic today and he told me that he had pressure tested the whole cooling system and everything was good. We talked a little bit about my heads and I brought it to his attention that the heads were fully ported/polished with copper gaskets. He told me sometimes the ports can be ported a little to thin, thus causing sepage on the exhaust side. I guess that explains some of the smoke I had coming from the tail pipes at start up. He told me to put some Bars coolent seal in it to see if that would fix it, and that GM had to do this back in the 90's to most of there cars. So for the most part and $1400 later, it's fixed. I've just got to find my coolent issue and cross my fingers that the stop leak will resolve that.
Well I went and picked her up yesterday. She seemed to be running better, no slight fludder at WOT. Oil pressure now is 19 psi at idel. However, when I left for my hour ride home temp stayed at 178. About half way through my trip I saw a very slight increase in temp but no more than 185. But I was on an interstate for the whole ride. Then as I got into a little start and stop traffic, the temp started going way up, 230 range. I got it home popped the rad. cap and coolent was about a gallon low. This means I'm still loosing coolent because the mechanic changed front timing cover and put fresh coolent in alone spark plugs, oil and oil pump.
I spoke with mechanic today and he told me that he had pressure tested the whole cooling system and everything was good. We talked a little bit about my heads and I brought it to his attention that the heads were fully ported/polished with copper gaskets. He told me sometimes the ports can be ported a little to thin, thus causing sepage on the exhaust side. I guess that explains some of the smoke I had coming from the tail pipes at start up. He told me to put some Bars coolent seal in it to see if that would fix it, and that GM had to do this back in the 90's to most of there cars. So for the most part and $1400 later, it's fixed. I've just got to find my coolent issue and cross my fingers that the stop leak will resolve that.
