Blown headgasket (azian6er)
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Well do you have a cooling problem right now? Do you have chocolate milk in your engine?(antifreeze and oil mixed) Coming from me who has blown a couple of head gaskets on the turbo Probe. If you have your head checked and its not warped or its within tolerances then I would carefully check torque specs. Also make sure you torque them in the sequence they need to be. Dont go from left to right. One time I was losing coolant but didnt know where it was going until I would overheat and find bubbles in my oil. But all that overheating warped the head just outside of tolerances so I had to get it shaved. Now i wish I had studs instead of factory head bolts because I always felt that the turbo(T3/T4 hybrid) I was running was too much for it, and the head wasnt clamped right or enough. Now on using the old head gasket, I wouldnt recomend that since youve already clamped that down and its experienced pressures. So your just taking it off and putting it back on which i dont think it will have the same strength. But maybe someone with more experience of copper head gaskets can give more imput
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got my head off now, after a good 2 hours of taking s*** apart, by the way this is my 1st time doing this, so im pretty sure anyone with any mechanical skill can do it in the same amount of time...THANK GOD, my head is not warped from what i can tell, and hg is gone for sure, will be doing a few things to the head since it isnt warped, ps. brian if you need help takin the engine apart call me ill try to help any way i can...
I don't know what really happened to your car, but I do know a couple of things:PRO 5 said:
1.From my dealings with rubber and gaskets, I don't like them because they don't stand up to heat well. Remember my oil leak issues from the turbo? Damn rubber gasket!
2. Did you o-ring the block? I hear that you should if you get a copper head gasket.
As of right now I don't have the 11mm studs yet but I am working on getting them. I still have the 10mm studs. I don't have my block o-ringed because I thought that the rubber coated copper head gasket did not need to have the block o-ringed. I have not had time to take off the head yet but when I do, I will take it to then machine shop to see if it is indeed warped. If not then I guess it is the head gasket and I will go with a stock head gasket instead of another rubber coated copper head gasket because I didn't even have 100 miles on the gasket yet and if it is blown........ Doesn't speak very well for it. As far as overheating, I haven't had an overheating problem. Only when this problem just started (car running funny and starting to see oil and coolant on the pistons) did I see the car get hotter then normal.
I checked my oil and it is not milky. The oil and coolant have not mixed in the oil pan or the radiator. So I don't know. It seems like a small leak but it is leaking on all 4 pistons. I will keep you all updated on what I find.
Dave
I checked my oil and it is not milky. The oil and coolant have not mixed in the oil pan or the radiator. So I don't know. It seems like a small leak but it is leaking on all 4 pistons. I will keep you all updated on what I find.
Dave
OK I just got my 11mm studs today. I will be taking my head back apart (AGAIN!!!) check the deck as well as the headgasket. So hopefully soon I will have my car back up and running soon. Damn I miss driving my car. Been almost a year already. 
Dave
Dave
Well just an update, took my head off and the rubber coated head gasket looked alright. So I took my head to the machine shop to get the deck checked. Come to find out it was perfectly fine. (uhm) So the machine shop guy and myself have come to the conclusion that I would need to o-ring the block even though the gasket is rubber coated. So I guess it is misleading about the rubber coating. It doesn't seal well at all. So since I am not about to pull out my block, take it all apart and have it o-ringed I will just pick up a stock head gasket. The machine shop guy said that a multi-layer steel head gasket should be good enough.
I wouldn't doubt that a lot of my problem was my the 10mm studs that is very lose in the block unless it is tightened down. I would put money down that this was a big contributer to the problem. Well the stock head gasket will not come in until next week Wednesday so hopefully I will be back on the road by next weekend.
Dave
I wouldn't doubt that a lot of my problem was my the 10mm studs that is very lose in the block unless it is tightened down. I would put money down that this was a big contributer to the problem. Well the stock head gasket will not come in until next week Wednesday so hopefully I will be back on the road by next weekend.
Dave
Oh boy. Chances are I have 10mm.
http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9524&page=3&pp=15&highlight=arp+head+studs+11mm+10mm
http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9524&page=3&pp=15&highlight=arp+head+studs+11mm+10mm
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Kooldino said:
teh suck.
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wow u have no luck
