nikgurn

Mine got way worse, I could maybe get 10 minutes out of it before it was to the point of boiling over. The Radiator was completely plugged. I think whoever had it before me just ran recycled fuilds. You have to stick to news stuff, it is alot less corrosive, or atleast that is what the radiator shop says. Hopefully i get it back together and running this weekend.

So i am going through the same bit with my car right now. GD was right on with it. Sounds like you are getting the same thing that happened to me, but atleast you are getting it taken care of now before things escalate. Good luck man-

Talked to my dad today, he took the radiator over to the local radiator shop to have it checked out, 99% blocked...go figure. Any way I htink that I am going to got with a new all metal one that they offer as a replacement. 40-45 bucks, heard anything bad on those? also i was looking at going to a higher volt coil and widening my plugs gap a little more, I have heard this makes the car more efficient. Is that a myth? Anything I should do preventative on it while everything is in pieces?

Yeah, I pulled the heads with out the ratcheting wrenches, took me a little under three hours. We do have an air ratchet and i was able to get it on most the bolts with a extra shallow socket, and zip them out. I took my sweet old time though cause i wanted to make sure that i knew how it goes back together. I dont see any cracks. To bad nobody around here carries the gaskets, so it looks like i am taking my brothers 79 cougar to school while i wait for them to show up, and then make a trip back to finish the car over labor day weekend. Cougar=cool car, horrific mileage (it has the cleveland motor, it is nice to be able to cruise over any pass and hold 80mph, and rock honda civics' world.)

thanks again. Yeah i think that they will need to be milled flat, i cant see where they are cracked, but who knows. Will I need a full top end gasket kit to have tehm milled?

So I am pretty sure that my heads are tosted, is it hard to find new heads? Am i better off just getting a remanufactured from CCR?

Sounds like an adventure if nothing else. Any other good threads on this?

BTW any chances of the water pump going, and if so how hard is it to pull?

Boile huh? Well i stopped before that happend, luckily it sounds. I grew up in a polaris snowmobile shop. I understand 2-stroke fuji motors, this is all new to me though.

thanks guys, i will chekc the radiator out and get some new HG's. How hard is it to do the new gaskets?

At car quest, just the stock 195 or whatever it is

Ok, so here is the story, I have a 92 Loyale. It runs, gets hot loses oil pressure and dies, takes it about 20 minutes of 50-60 mph. Where do i start. I put in a new t-stat, seemed to help for a minure but then nothing, just got hot. Any advice would be awesome