Ok, so I took off my intake the other day to replace a ticking lifter. Got that done, bolted it all back up, re-stabbed the dizzy and started the car.
I wound up setting the timing to ~20* advanced on accident (timing light set wrong)
Anyways, took the car out, it was stuttering and pinging like crazy. Turn around take it home, and re-do the timing. Now everything's fine.
Forward ~one week later, I'm getting bubbles in my coolant overflow tank while running and immediately after shutdown and I have coolant in my oil. I also had an oil leak from my intake at the back so I thought the gaskets weren't done right.
So I re-do the intake gaskets and I am still getting bubbles in my overflow tank and coolant in my oil.
So I guess my question is, with the timing too high is it likely that I blew my head gasket? I know how to check for a bad head gasket but how can I be sure its not the intake gasket?
I'm pretty good on the head gasket testing procedure.
-Compression test on all cylinders look for two that have similar levels (lower than the others) or look for one dead cylinder. And that's your bad spot.
But my problem started when I took the intake on and off so I'm wondering if my problem is really to do with the intake gasket instead. Is there any test that would properly diagnose a bad intake gasket vs. a bad head gasket?
Any other tips for figuring this out would be most appreciated! I'm going to run a compression test tonight.
Thanks,
I wound up setting the timing to ~20* advanced on accident (timing light set wrong)
Anyways, took the car out, it was stuttering and pinging like crazy. Turn around take it home, and re-do the timing. Now everything's fine.
Forward ~one week later, I'm getting bubbles in my coolant overflow tank while running and immediately after shutdown and I have coolant in my oil. I also had an oil leak from my intake at the back so I thought the gaskets weren't done right.
So I re-do the intake gaskets and I am still getting bubbles in my overflow tank and coolant in my oil.
So I guess my question is, with the timing too high is it likely that I blew my head gasket? I know how to check for a bad head gasket but how can I be sure its not the intake gasket?
I'm pretty good on the head gasket testing procedure.
-Compression test on all cylinders look for two that have similar levels (lower than the others) or look for one dead cylinder. And that's your bad spot.
But my problem started when I took the intake on and off so I'm wondering if my problem is really to do with the intake gasket instead. Is there any test that would properly diagnose a bad intake gasket vs. a bad head gasket?
Any other tips for figuring this out would be most appreciated! I'm going to run a compression test tonight.
Thanks,