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This sounds like you blew the headgaskets. I had an experience
like that with a 48 New Yorker many years ago. Replacing the headgasket &
having the head machined cured that problem.
John
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 10:28
PM
Subject: IML: What's wrong with my small
block? (long)
Just finished reading about poor Silver. I'm glad it
looks like Mike is
keeping her. Now for my misery....
Some of you
may remember I (boy genius) overheated my car by driving with no
coolant
last week. Then I bypassed the heater, drove another 15 miles and
it
died again, dieseling for awhile before it would shut off.
I went back to
fix it and it leaked oil from the filter adapter. Changed
the oil,
changed the gasket and no more oil leak. Drove it about 4 minutes
and it
began to make a thunking sound. Turned out to be from the
radiator.
Dumping water from the oil filter. Guy in Mieneke
said you can't bypass
the heater and therefore the pressure was too
high. Added a new heater
hose, again on my way. Car ran great
for about six minutes, then if I
missed a light the clunking would faintly
begin, but go away when in motion.
It got worse. After about
12 minutes I saw coolant leaking out and again
pulled over. I assumed the
problem was with the radiator.
Pulled over, pop the hood and there is
hissing from the valve covers, pull
the pcv valve and breather and it is
hissing out of there and white smoke
(steam?) is slowly coming out and it
seems to be under pressure. What kind
of major damage have I done to
this beast?
Do I have to buy a new engine?
Car runs great, like new for
six minutes at a time.
Thanks for all replies. Thanks to everybody it
doesn't leak oil, too bad I
still can't drive it
:(
Rob
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