sheepdawg
Champagne appetite. Beer income.
I am sick to my stomach. I just had my 83 fj60 rebuilt only 5 k miles ago. It had been running great then all of a sudden I started noticing antifreeze on my garage floor. Not a big deal, my thought was winter is hear and I have been dropping down to 20 degrees at night. Then I noticed my reservoir was overflowing with antifreeze and I could hear my radiator bubbling when I turned off the engine. My normal operating temperature usually runs about 145 to 150 degrees and now I noticed I was running about 160. This was with a mechanical temp gauge. I took it in to a radiator shop and they put about 13 lbs of pressure to the system and no leaks but he did notice that I was half a gallon low on antifreeze. So he refilled it and said to monitor it. after he put a new radiator cap on it.
Well, low and behold, the antifreeze started overflowing again and I started noticing white smoke coming out of the tail pipe. Shut it down and looked at the oil. Not really milky but maybe I was just catching it when it started. So I do a compression check after warming the engine up for 10 minutes. More white smoke and a sweet smell coming out of the tail pipe and now even antifreeze coming out of the tail pipe.
I remove all the spark plugs and noticed the #5 plug was very hard to remove. When I started doing the compression check, antifreeze shot out of the #5 plug hole.
Pressures read as follows:
# 1 130 lbs, #2 115 lbs, #3 115 lbs, #4 115 lbs, and #5 190 lbs, and the #6 125 lbs.
Does that seem right? I thought I would get a lower pressure where the leak was, or do I have it the opposite.
I recently learned that the 61040 heads had a tendency to crack. So I have an extra sitting on my shelf. What is your opinion?
Very pissed off at my situation, because I just don't have the time to mess with this project since I am rebuilding another 2f for my fj40.
Needed to vent.
Well, low and behold, the antifreeze started overflowing again and I started noticing white smoke coming out of the tail pipe. Shut it down and looked at the oil. Not really milky but maybe I was just catching it when it started. So I do a compression check after warming the engine up for 10 minutes. More white smoke and a sweet smell coming out of the tail pipe and now even antifreeze coming out of the tail pipe.
I remove all the spark plugs and noticed the #5 plug was very hard to remove. When I started doing the compression check, antifreeze shot out of the #5 plug hole.
Pressures read as follows:
# 1 130 lbs, #2 115 lbs, #3 115 lbs, #4 115 lbs, and #5 190 lbs, and the #6 125 lbs.
Does that seem right? I thought I would get a lower pressure where the leak was, or do I have it the opposite.
I recently learned that the 61040 heads had a tendency to crack. So I have an extra sitting on my shelf. What is your opinion?
Very pissed off at my situation, because I just don't have the time to mess with this project since I am rebuilding another 2f for my fj40.
Needed to vent.