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Hi,
Some of you may remember a previous post I had about adding a temp gauge on a Tbird I bought for 400 bucks that wouldn't pass smog.
I've started to follow the advice given to me and so far have done cap&rotor, plugs and plug wires, I would have done the 02 sensor today also but they were out of stock. The #1 plug look kind of old like it was way overdue for a change and maybe saw a hint of preignition at some point, all the other plugs had some carbon and looked like they were in rich running cylinders. I still havent checked for excessive fuel pressure which may be the cause or it could be dirty injectors, those are my two guess at this point anyway, and the car does smell a little rich. So after everything is back together with new ignition parts I start er up with no probs, but after a few minutes the motor stumbles a bit but catches itself and goes back to normal, I checked plug wire connections real quick and then went back in car and started to rev it to see if it would return to idle normally or stutter or anything again. I noticed that it doesn't want to rev real high or if I floor it in neutral the turbo whines some, don't know if this is normal behavior or not, is it? Anyway no more stumbles or anything so I get out of car and notice brown water running down the driveway in a thin little stream, I look and its originating from the tailpipe. When this dried it left a rust stain on the cement. This is when the motor is still fairly cool and b4 doing anything else I shut it off, checked the oil for milkshake and found none, then installed the temp gauge. Restarted it and there was still steam but not much water and I let the car idle for about 30 mins while watching the temp gauge, after 30 mins with the occasional revving it finally started to move close to the 250 mark on the gauge, its an auto meter and b4 that it says 210 so I don't know exactly where I was at but decided that was hot enough for me, the fan never came on during all of this. It never spitted out as much water but still gave a nice steam bath. Also for what its worth the coolant is nice and green. So besides the fact that I was stupid to rev it a lot while it wasn't really warmed up I have a couple of questions.
1) Think the headgasket is bad?
2) Anyone see a downside to me cutting the wires to the fan and using an adjustible temp switch to turn on the fan at about 200?
Thanks
Some of you may remember a previous post I had about adding a temp gauge on a Tbird I bought for 400 bucks that wouldn't pass smog.
I've started to follow the advice given to me and so far have done cap&rotor, plugs and plug wires, I would have done the 02 sensor today also but they were out of stock. The #1 plug look kind of old like it was way overdue for a change and maybe saw a hint of preignition at some point, all the other plugs had some carbon and looked like they were in rich running cylinders. I still havent checked for excessive fuel pressure which may be the cause or it could be dirty injectors, those are my two guess at this point anyway, and the car does smell a little rich. So after everything is back together with new ignition parts I start er up with no probs, but after a few minutes the motor stumbles a bit but catches itself and goes back to normal, I checked plug wire connections real quick and then went back in car and started to rev it to see if it would return to idle normally or stutter or anything again. I noticed that it doesn't want to rev real high or if I floor it in neutral the turbo whines some, don't know if this is normal behavior or not, is it? Anyway no more stumbles or anything so I get out of car and notice brown water running down the driveway in a thin little stream, I look and its originating from the tailpipe. When this dried it left a rust stain on the cement. This is when the motor is still fairly cool and b4 doing anything else I shut it off, checked the oil for milkshake and found none, then installed the temp gauge. Restarted it and there was still steam but not much water and I let the car idle for about 30 mins while watching the temp gauge, after 30 mins with the occasional revving it finally started to move close to the 250 mark on the gauge, its an auto meter and b4 that it says 210 so I don't know exactly where I was at but decided that was hot enough for me, the fan never came on during all of this. It never spitted out as much water but still gave a nice steam bath. Also for what its worth the coolant is nice and green. So besides the fact that I was stupid to rev it a lot while it wasn't really warmed up I have a couple of questions.
1) Think the headgasket is bad?
2) Anyone see a downside to me cutting the wires to the fan and using an adjustible temp switch to turn on the fan at about 200?
Thanks
84 turbocoupe