So, I could use some help/guidance on my 62.
I have a feeling I'm creeping towards as head job.
This is the scenario. Driving home one day with the A/c blasting and it's 90+ outside. Temp gauge skyrockets and luckily I'm a block from my house. Get home she starts dumping coolant. Found the culprit was the oil cooler pipe had given up the ghost.
So I bought a new thermostat, waterpump, hoses/lines, and gaskets. Gave it all to my mechanic and he slapped it all in for me (as I have no idea what I'm doing, I'm an electrical engineer not a mechanical!)
Driving home, it's idiling rough. Get about 8 miles of 55+ and the temp gauge shoots up and I pull over and it dies. Won't start.
Mechanic gets it back and only the cylinder closest to the firewall has any compression. The other 5 are at 0. He dumps some oil in it and it gets up to 30 in those 5.
The reason it overheated is a coolant hose blew off the bottom of the engine. So maybe when it overheated it took out the headgasket?
This morning my mechanic calls me and tells me it's running again. Said he kept dumping oil into the cylinders and it started right up this morning. Took it for a 20 mile 70+ mph trip. Ran beautifully.
He is stumped and so am I?
Anyone have any ideas or I should just eat the 1500 and get a head job done?
Thanks for your advice!
I have a feeling I'm creeping towards as head job.
This is the scenario. Driving home one day with the A/c blasting and it's 90+ outside. Temp gauge skyrockets and luckily I'm a block from my house. Get home she starts dumping coolant. Found the culprit was the oil cooler pipe had given up the ghost.
So I bought a new thermostat, waterpump, hoses/lines, and gaskets. Gave it all to my mechanic and he slapped it all in for me (as I have no idea what I'm doing, I'm an electrical engineer not a mechanical!)
Driving home, it's idiling rough. Get about 8 miles of 55+ and the temp gauge shoots up and I pull over and it dies. Won't start.
Mechanic gets it back and only the cylinder closest to the firewall has any compression. The other 5 are at 0. He dumps some oil in it and it gets up to 30 in those 5.
The reason it overheated is a coolant hose blew off the bottom of the engine. So maybe when it overheated it took out the headgasket?
This morning my mechanic calls me and tells me it's running again. Said he kept dumping oil into the cylinders and it started right up this morning. Took it for a 20 mile 70+ mph trip. Ran beautifully.
He is stumped and so am I?
Anyone have any ideas or I should just eat the 1500 and get a head job done?
Thanks for your advice!
