Car seems worse after new head gasket?
 

ok I just changed my head gasket on my h23 prelude. the car seems worse than it was before.It was 6 months ago when this first happend, car had a lot of blow by. Did a compression test. It was 175,175,115,105.

so I pulled the head. I filled the cylinders up with gas to see if it would leak, it took a few hours to leak out. Than I filled them up with oil and turned it over by hand it took almost a week till the oil leaked out. I dropped the oil pan didn't see any broken parts, of metal flakes.

Than winter set in so my car was snowed in. 5-6 months later I finally got around to fixing it. put it all together. Did a compression test now I have 125,125,75,0. Now on the last cylinder that read 0. it would build up compression and when I let off the key it was gone. so If anybody can point me in the right direction that would be great.

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do you have any bent valves?

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when the head was off I looked and dind't see anything bent, and the valves looked to be closed and seated. Iam going to pull the valve cover tomorrow to see if anything is bent.

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wow man, that damn engin is roached. cut your loses and replace it

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Yea man dont wants ur time with that one, just pick up a used one.

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ummm... when you did the head gasket... did u check it for flatness and/or mill it?..... it's prolly warped!

mike

Re:Car seems worse after new head gasket?
 

no I didn't get it milled, I just used a quick sraitght edged it. that was it.

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That damn surfacing will get you every time. It's cheap insurance. You could be like me and replace the head gasket 3 times before starting to think maybe something else is wrong. ::)
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Re:Car seems worse after new head gasket?
 

first off did you turke the head down to the correct pounds it needed. becuase maby you have too much turke on one side of the head than the other. and then 2ed you should take fine sand paper and take off every thing nasty on the block and head. till you see a nice shiny look.then do a compreson check again. i learned from my mistakes. i hade to do 2 in 2 month. becuase i did my first one roung.then after i did it right my car ran nice and fast till i blow the engine up.and then the other and the other.but its all good.

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Yea Dr.Boost I think its the surfacing that got my here. I could kick my self in the nuts for not doing it. Yea I have everything torqued down by the book, with 3 passes 29,51,75 pounds. I talked to Abaz last night after I got back from the bar, bad Idea I was all fucked up. not sure How I was able to type. but he helped me out, giving me other ideas what to check for, and it looks like I gotta get the head resurfaced. thanks abaz