Coolant in my Water... New Motor... Never Started
08-27-2008, 01:34 PM
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Coolant in my Water... New Motor... Never Started
When I started filling up the radiator it was taking way too much water... and I could hear a gurgling in my catch can... then I saw my shitty weld leaking on the oil pan fitting.. but it was leaking water.... what the ---- did I or the machine shop forget or mess up
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Halp!
08-27-2008, 02:46 PM
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Re: Coolant in my Water... New Motor... Never Started
oh yea... the headgasket is there...
the motor didnt have a gaping coolant leak before the new pistons were put in.. it was only bored to 81.5.. so there shouldnt be any issues there...
I dunno.. is there any way I could have my coolant lines hooked up wrong on the back of the block?? ----.
the motor didnt have a gaping coolant leak before the new pistons were put in.. it was only bored to 81.5.. so there shouldnt be any issues there...
I dunno.. is there any way I could have my coolant lines hooked up wrong on the back of the block?? ----.
08-27-2008, 03:13 PM
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Re: Coolant in my Water... New Motor... Never Started
Im dumb... anyone have pics? I want to get it down to just having the two big coolant hoses to and from the radiator.. can I cap everything else??... and the pcv... which one is it?
08-27-2008, 04:23 PM
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Re: Coolant in my Water... New Motor... Never Started
Honestly if you don't want to just trace them back to where they come from, unhook all the hoses, replace the ones you KNOW are coolant, flush out your block as best as you can and let it dry out (I would say run some kind of solvent through it that evaporates quickly but I don't know how you'd go about doing that nor how bad it would damage rubber seals) and then start the bitch after you've replaced the oil.
Feel which hoses are vacuum, and which ones **** out water.
Or you could refer to the vaccuum diagram under the hood/in a manual.
Feel which hoses are vacuum, and which ones **** out water.
Or you could refer to the vaccuum diagram under the hood/in a manual.
08-27-2008, 04:40 PM
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Re: Coolant in my Water... New Motor... Never Started
I'll do that... I was planning on running a couple of gallons or more of cheap ---- oil through it... then starting it up and running it for a hundred miles or so and changing it again..
So.. I'll let you guys know how it all ends up... word.
So.. I'll let you guys know how it all ends up... word.
08-27-2008, 04:55 PM
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Re: Coolant in my Water... New Motor... Never Started
If its a B18a1, you have a barbed fitting over the top of the black breather box that runs to the breather box, then you have one that runs from the box to your pcv. Download the shop man. https://www.homemadeturbo.com/forum/...?topic=10912.0
