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^^ I am sure most of you guys have seen this^^
I got the car together and it didnt have the power it should have. It was using coolant and having a hard time starting. I took the radiator cap off and started it, right when it fired the compression leaking immediately caused coolant to shoot out and spray everywhere. I came to the conclusion the head gasket was leaking really bad
This is the surface of the block and head before i put it together
I thought that was clean enough. I cleaned the block and head with 3m pads by hand.
I did not get new head bolts, I have reused them on on f series and j series motors with no issue. I dont like how the civic bolts only call for 49 foot pounds. I feel like i needed to keep cranking.
when i started torquing them down i realized my torque wrench was not working so I tightened some up to try and get it to click. I went over on some on the first step but not by much. when I realized my torque wrench was bad i borrowed by brothers and went threw in the proper order to the proper foot pounds. The first step some where overdone from the previous wrench not working but on the 2nd and 3rd step they all turned then clicked in the proper order,I went threw them all again tightening them to the wimpy required 49 lbs.
That obviously didnt work so i pulled the head off after maybe driving 30 miles and this is what it looked like
The head come off the old motor in my car and it was never overheated. My car never even got hot with this issue so im pretty sure its true, i am going to check it to be safe. I have never seen a block warp. Could my issue tightening the bolts have done it or could it have been from reusing the old bolts? do head gaskets just sometimes not seal?
^^ I am sure most of you guys have seen this^^
I got the car together and it didnt have the power it should have. It was using coolant and having a hard time starting. I took the radiator cap off and started it, right when it fired the compression leaking immediately caused coolant to shoot out and spray everywhere. I came to the conclusion the head gasket was leaking really bad
This is the surface of the block and head before i put it together
I thought that was clean enough. I cleaned the block and head with 3m pads by hand.
I did not get new head bolts, I have reused them on on f series and j series motors with no issue. I dont like how the civic bolts only call for 49 foot pounds. I feel like i needed to keep cranking.
when i started torquing them down i realized my torque wrench was not working so I tightened some up to try and get it to click. I went over on some on the first step but not by much. when I realized my torque wrench was bad i borrowed by brothers and went threw in the proper order to the proper foot pounds. The first step some where overdone from the previous wrench not working but on the 2nd and 3rd step they all turned then clicked in the proper order,I went threw them all again tightening them to the wimpy required 49 lbs.
That obviously didnt work so i pulled the head off after maybe driving 30 miles and this is what it looked like
The head come off the old motor in my car and it was never overheated. My car never even got hot with this issue so im pretty sure its true, i am going to check it to be safe. I have never seen a block warp. Could my issue tightening the bolts have done it or could it have been from reusing the old bolts? do head gaskets just sometimes not seal?
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