Well about a week ago my dads cavy blown a head gasket, its a 01 ohv. I just put on a new head gasket and got the head rebulit. I finished up everything and the car had a bad misfire on cyl #3 and it was bringing up an injector open loop code. I swapped #2 and #3 injectors around to see if it would do the same on cyl#2 but it somehow fixed the problem and the car ran great. BUT the temps kept going pass 195 and steadily climbed higher and higher, The way I got the temps to go down was to downshift and get the rpms up and the temps would slowly go back down..
That wasn't the big problem, the car ran great and all besides the temps climbing but I was on the hwy and the car suddenly just lost power to the motor. I gave it gas and it didnt do anything. The engine was still on but didnt want to go, I stoped and it died Immediately. I looked at the fluids and they were good (No water/shavings in oil) but when I removed the dipstick, white smoke came out? I tried cranking it and the engine was very hard to turn over.
I have two thoughts of to what it might be. #1 Spun a bearing, BUT there was no symptoms. The car simply ran great right before this happened. #2 Jumped timing? I dont know where the timing chain or gears are on a 2200 so I dont know.
Any ideas guys? I apologize for my lack of grammar and punctuation. I stayed up all night putting the car together and then had to tow it home a while ago....
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Ya I guess that would be a start.
13.520 @ 98mph! 220whp 234tq
Ya. I would guess that you fill find that this cylinder is dead. Heat probley got to the rings before the replacement of the head gasket. Hopefully not but I have seen this before.
Well the car ran great right before it died... Its weird
13.520 @ 98mph! 220whp 234tq
Well, got the car to run again but now it is knocking...
13.520 @ 98mph! 220whp 234tq
did you but the timing chain back on correctly after the headgasket
forget that imma dummy read your first post again lol
Pretty sure it spun a rod bearing.
13.520 @ 98mph! 220whp 234tq
Sounds to me like there was a huge air pocket in the coolant. My guess is it overheated, sometimes when it overheats like you described there will be water a the temp sensor but really its still overheating cus of the air in the system. Worst case you could have warped the head really bad filled a cylinder with coolant and bent a rod.
the_miker17(u kiddin) wrote:did you but the timing chain back on correctly after the headgasket
the car he worked on is a 2200 not a 2.4.
OP did you put the plugs back in the right order?
Yup, made sure everything was right... The head is good, it was completely rebuilt and I put the new gaskets back on correctly. I might just eco swap it or get a junkyard 2200.
13.520 @ 98mph! 220whp 234tq
