Hey guys, still kind of learning my way around the vehicle world as this is my first rig, so bear with me. I'll try and post anything that i think is relevant.
Last weekend while doing a road trip, i was about 1/4 through a trail and my engine started misfiring/smoking at lower RPM's, this was while the engine was still warm, with a bit of load in the vehicle. Proceeded to inspect everything and it looked OK, and on the highway back i was cruising at full speed as if nothing was wrong. Another thing to add that over the past few months, i get absolutely 0 power when i start from a dead stop. I have to ride the clutch for almost all of 1st gear just to get it in second and even then it chugs up from second.
My oil pressure never goes between 1/8 and 1/4, coolant temp sensor stays at a consistent level right below the midmark, I've only seen it go barely above the midmark on 2 occasions, both about 2 months ago when we had a heat wave going up hills.
When i FIRST got the vehicle, i overfilled the coolant reservoir, and only recently it decided to pressurize and dump a s*** ton of coolant on the ground, its sitting at the MAX line right now.
Ive inspected for telltale signs of a head/gasket, and no fumes are coming out of the rad cap, neither does the coolant or oil look funky.
My crankcase breather tube has a decent amount of oil in it.
When i take off the oil cap, there is a decent amount of air blowing out, along with some oil.
I just cleaned the air filter, fuel filter is pretty new, and i ran some injector cleaner through it about 2 months ago.
Head gasket was done about 40k ago. Engine is sitting at 215k as of today.
Video below of it starting up, with me revving it a bit. I can also hear some weird klanking noise as well coming from it only when its cold.
Last weekend while doing a road trip, i was about 1/4 through a trail and my engine started misfiring/smoking at lower RPM's, this was while the engine was still warm, with a bit of load in the vehicle. Proceeded to inspect everything and it looked OK, and on the highway back i was cruising at full speed as if nothing was wrong. Another thing to add that over the past few months, i get absolutely 0 power when i start from a dead stop. I have to ride the clutch for almost all of 1st gear just to get it in second and even then it chugs up from second.
My oil pressure never goes between 1/8 and 1/4, coolant temp sensor stays at a consistent level right below the midmark, I've only seen it go barely above the midmark on 2 occasions, both about 2 months ago when we had a heat wave going up hills.
When i FIRST got the vehicle, i overfilled the coolant reservoir, and only recently it decided to pressurize and dump a s*** ton of coolant on the ground, its sitting at the MAX line right now.
Ive inspected for telltale signs of a head/gasket, and no fumes are coming out of the rad cap, neither does the coolant or oil look funky.
My crankcase breather tube has a decent amount of oil in it.
When i take off the oil cap, there is a decent amount of air blowing out, along with some oil.
I just cleaned the air filter, fuel filter is pretty new, and i ran some injector cleaner through it about 2 months ago.
Head gasket was done about 40k ago. Engine is sitting at 215k as of today.
Video below of it starting up, with me revving it a bit. I can also hear some weird klanking noise as well coming from it only when its cold.
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