about to friggen break down in tears

[stealthee]

Luckily my grf lives a few hours away, but anytime she hears of me having trouble with my car she feels bad because I have to work on it no matter if I am tired or sick or whatever since its my only car.

[green-lantern]

Luckily my grf lives a few hours away, but anytime she hears of me having trouble with my car she feels bad because I have to work on it no matter if I am tired or sick or whatever since its my only car.

I've been meaning to ask you, so you didn't sell or trade it right? I thought it was BS but you never know.

[stealthee]

Haha, it was all a big April Fool's joke. I still drive it every day.

[green-lantern]

Haha, it was all a big April Fool's joke. I still drive it every day.

lol I thought so but it went on for a while so I wasn't sure.

[billbrown72]

well just went and played around a little...refilled radiator and tried to crank....turning it over its shooting water 3 feet into air with cap off....don't know of many cars that thats normal....plus its just spinning with a couple of puffs of trying to fire...shit so far not good....not gonna stress, got to much money in her to not fix her, plus love love love her when she's not pms'ing lol...oh well try again tuesday evening

[stealthee]

If its shooting water into the air then yeah it sounds like you are pressurizing the crankcase.

[BaadVR4]

Shooting water while cranking probably means blown head gasket(s) as a minimum. The compression pressure is getting into the coolant system and forcing the water out. You could also have more serious problems (cracked block/warped heads), but you won't know about them until you tear it apart. If I can help with parts, PM me.

[blindmist]

Shooting water while cranking is a blown head gasket. I just got finished deal with a DSM that wasnt running right. He said it had got hot once. I took the radiator cap off, told him to crank it, it shot water about 4ft in the air. Pulled the head, new gasket and decked the head, reinstalled, no longer a problem. The only issue he has is that we are getting ~75psi per cylinder, so the rings are shot, but the water doesn't shoot out anymore.

[Lugnut]

getting some sympathy by the wife so good time to "fix" my car

Score

[green-lantern]

Yeah, at the very least you have a blown head gasket. You might be able to get by with decking/rebuilding the heads. Not sure if the head gasket caused it to over heat or the over heating caused the head gasket to blow. I’d make sure to do the 60K in case the water pump is bad.