...partially Clogged! ? Help! Let me first say that I've mostly replaced the normal maintenance stuff like oil, oil filter, fuel filter and exhaust, installed Nitrous in another car as to the level of my experience and am now trying something a bit more difficult.
First I realize my car has a busted head gasket because it's smoking antifreeze burning white smoke in the back:
That being said, I replaced the thermostat and thermostat gasket thinking it will flow better into cooling the engine. It is squirting with a stream where the housing metal and the plastic cap meet. Several Questions:
1. Did I install the Beck Arney thermostat upside down that's forcing it to squirt out like this? I'm assuming the thermostat assembly being busted wouldn't do this.
2. Second, anyone know of an actual DVD in video format that shows a step by step method of replacing the head gasket?
3. If not, I don't mind doing the Book/Software method of replacing it. Do you know of a good one?
4. Aside from being tedious and most likely lengthy, how difficult is it to replace the head gasket from a rating of 1 to 10, with a 1 being something like replacing your oil and a 10 being rebuilding your transmission or engine?
5. How hard is it to achieve the Top Dead Center prior to getting to the gasket?? I'm guessing this is a correct assumption.
Please answer all questions by copying and pasting.
RE: Knowledge of Blown head gasket:
(Murphy's law: It just got worse and worse and I was truly hoping it wasn't going to be a head gasket problem and treated it as everything else but that):
First I realize my car has a busted head gasket because it's smoking antifreeze burning white smoke in the back:
That being said, I replaced the thermostat and thermostat gasket thinking it will flow better into cooling the engine. It is squirting with a stream where the housing metal and the plastic cap meet. Several Questions:
1. Did I install the Beck Arney thermostat upside down that's forcing it to squirt out like this? I'm assuming the thermostat assembly being busted wouldn't do this.
2. Second, anyone know of an actual DVD in video format that shows a step by step method of replacing the head gasket?
3. If not, I don't mind doing the Book/Software method of replacing it. Do you know of a good one?
4. Aside from being tedious and most likely lengthy, how difficult is it to replace the head gasket from a rating of 1 to 10, with a 1 being something like replacing your oil and a 10 being rebuilding your transmission or engine?
5. How hard is it to achieve the Top Dead Center prior to getting to the gasket?? I'm guessing this is a correct assumption.
Please answer all questions by copying and pasting.
RE: Knowledge of Blown head gasket:
(Murphy's law: It just got worse and worse and I was truly hoping it wasn't going to be a head gasket problem and treated it as everything else but that):