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- va beach va
97 4.0 AW4 2wd
Just picked it up two days ago from a guy in the Navy, practically giving it away cause base housing was hounding him. Paid 300 for it, he said it had a blown head gasket and it ran a little rough(I guessed sensors). I brought a fresh battery and started it up, what I witnessed was in line with what he said, so i bought it. Its only 300, why not.
Got it home, pulled the head, gasket, got all gasket material cleaned off the matting surfaces, and put it all back together. This isn't my first head gasket job so it was done right.
I started it up and she's still puffing a little bit of smoke (minimal) at idle but open up the throttle and there is still a massive smoke bomb. Opened the oil cap on the valve cover and it's back to milkshake... So I'm thinking this guy must have overheated it like a champ and warped the the head. Oooooor maybe a crack in the head, I only ran it for about 30 seconds so I wouldnt think there would'nt be that much fluid transfer in that short amount of time. And it's a 0630 head, and I dont hear about them cracking really.
So I need opinions, what do we think. Warped, Craked or if you've got anything else throw it out there. I think I'll go to the junk yard and grab a head there and try to throw that on to see if theres a difference.
And I'm at work now so in the a.m. I'm gonna run a comp test...leak down test if autozone has a tester available as a loaner. I'll post up results.
Thanks all
Just picked it up two days ago from a guy in the Navy, practically giving it away cause base housing was hounding him. Paid 300 for it, he said it had a blown head gasket and it ran a little rough(I guessed sensors). I brought a fresh battery and started it up, what I witnessed was in line with what he said, so i bought it. Its only 300, why not.
Got it home, pulled the head, gasket, got all gasket material cleaned off the matting surfaces, and put it all back together. This isn't my first head gasket job so it was done right.
I started it up and she's still puffing a little bit of smoke (minimal) at idle but open up the throttle and there is still a massive smoke bomb. Opened the oil cap on the valve cover and it's back to milkshake... So I'm thinking this guy must have overheated it like a champ and warped the the head. Oooooor maybe a crack in the head, I only ran it for about 30 seconds so I wouldnt think there would'nt be that much fluid transfer in that short amount of time. And it's a 0630 head, and I dont hear about them cracking really.
So I need opinions, what do we think. Warped, Craked or if you've got anything else throw it out there. I think I'll go to the junk yard and grab a head there and try to throw that on to see if theres a difference.
And I'm at work now so in the a.m. I'm gonna run a comp test...leak down test if autozone has a tester available as a loaner. I'll post up results.
Thanks all