Del Sol Overheating / blown head gasket advice requested
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Del Sol Overheating / blown head gasket advice requested
Hi guys - and Seasons Greetings!
Car: 94 Del Sol Si (stock) D16Z6/auto trans, 160,000 miles, bought 3 months ago for $1,600. Has rough body, no rust, good A/C, excellent brakes and trans. Driven on weekends to come home to Jacksonville from U of FL at Gainesville.
The car is my college student Godsons, bought because he likes my Del Sols. He is rich but financially prudent (a cheap SOB). He's brilliant, a inexperienced mechanic and a nice guy. Car repair training is my gift to him.
So far using my tools and guidance he has replaced spark plugs, a water pump, timing belt, cam & crank seals, thermostat, rear calipers and interior door handles. He did this with my oversight and tools. He follows directions well and is very quick to grasp ideas and repair techniques
Issue is chocolate-milk-shake looking oil. Car runs rough and loses water. I think a blown head gasket is likely. He is willing to work on the car at my place, with my tools.
Considering cost, materials and time required do I recommend:
a JDM engine or
replace head gasket or
buy a different car?
Car: 94 Del Sol Si (stock) D16Z6/auto trans, 160,000 miles, bought 3 months ago for $1,600. Has rough body, no rust, good A/C, excellent brakes and trans. Driven on weekends to come home to Jacksonville from U of FL at Gainesville.
The car is my college student Godsons, bought because he likes my Del Sols. He is rich but financially prudent (a cheap SOB). He's brilliant, a inexperienced mechanic and a nice guy. Car repair training is my gift to him.
So far using my tools and guidance he has replaced spark plugs, a water pump, timing belt, cam & crank seals, thermostat, rear calipers and interior door handles. He did this with my oversight and tools. He follows directions well and is very quick to grasp ideas and repair techniques
Issue is chocolate-milk-shake looking oil. Car runs rough and loses water. I think a blown head gasket is likely. He is willing to work on the car at my place, with my tools.
Considering cost, materials and time required do I recommend:
a JDM engine or
replace head gasket or
buy a different car?
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Re: Del Sol Overheating / blown head gasket advice requested
it's a blown headgasket. remove cylinder head, resurface head and block, install oem head gasket, 2 oil changes, coolant flush, good as new.
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Re: Del Sol Overheating / blown head gasket advice requested
Pull the head. Have it professionally cleaned, pressure tested, and decked. Check the block deck for trueness. It will probably be warped. If it isn't, you got lucky, and should remove it and completely overhaul it, including a hydrosonic cleaning to get any **** out of the coolant channels. If it is, you got unlucky, and should remove it and completely overhaul it, including a hydrosonic cleaning to get any **** out of the coolant channels. Once you've done that, replace the radiator to get rid of any residual **** in that, and all of your coolant lines for the same reason.
See what I'm getting at, here? It's time for a complete rebuild under the hood.
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Re: Del Sol Overheating / blown head gasket advice requested
That's part of a head gasket job, is it not?
We (mechanics) always check the block deck on cars that are getting head gasket jobs, but 99.9999999999% of the time the deck surface is fine. Moving into boosted applications, 7M-GTE Toyota Supras seem to be the only ones where that 99.9999999999% figure changes to a lower percentage.
We (mechanics) always check the block deck on cars that are getting head gasket jobs, but 99.9999999999% of the time the deck surface is fine. Moving into boosted applications, 7M-GTE Toyota Supras seem to be the only ones where that 99.9999999999% figure changes to a lower percentage.
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