ORIGINAL: mobowhuntr
ORIGINAL: Mikey S.
ORIGINAL: mobowhuntr
Ok, I have had enough of this POS van of mine.....I'm pretty sure we just blew the head in it tonight.......
what happened to it? did it overheat? how many miles on it?
It's got a couple things going on. Yes, it overheats, and has water running down the block. It's got 150,000 miles on it, and my first thought was head gasket. No water in the oil......It runs like CRAP at idle.....it sounds like a big block that's overstroked.....BUT, IF you can get it started, and running down the road, it runs perfectly fine. It only runs bad at idle. At idle, the front end shakes, but again, when going down the road it fine. The temp gauge goes up and down at random, so I thought MAYBE the sensor, because the low coolant light comes on as well......Then it overheats, so it's not a sensor.......So I thought thermastat, but that doesn't explain the water running down the block....
So, I think possibly water coming out the back of the water pump.....that would account for the fluctuating temp and low coolant light, and would explain the water down the outside of the block.....But it doesn't explain why it runs poorly.......I just don't know...
Is the water leaking out near where the pump mounts to the block? a possibility is that it got hot, cooked the gasket, and possibly warped the cylinder enough to allow water to seap into the combustion chamber, causing it to idle poorly. at 150,000 miles though, anything is possible man!