block looked alright. I tried cleaning it up and didnt notice any cracks or whatever. I had it honed and cleaned but never had it surfaced. It looked alright. That was done at klispies.
Thermostat is new. I even tried running without it. The stock temp sensor is right next to it and that is new also. I should move where I have the megasquirt coolant temp sensor. I have it on the return right before the water pump after the heater core, oil cooler, turbo.
I got the felpro mls headgasket and used the copper spray on it.
And how do you go about bleeding the coolant? And what exactly does that funnel thing do?
I’ll start it cold. so maybe around 75-80 degrees then in a few minutes this happens. I dont think it even gets up to normal operating temp.
you “looked” at the block and head, it’s unlikely that just by looking at them, you’d be able to see the problem. Just my experience, unless it’s something catastrophic.
how much is your time worth swapping parts around? I would think the better option would be 1-buy the tool(s) to diagose your problem properly or 2-bring it to someone who has the tools to diagnose your problem properly
if you choose option 1, then get yourself a leakdown tester
the only way you can be absolutely sure you don’t have air pockets or to put a vacuum on the cooling system before filling it.
I use this, but I’m sure there are other more resonably-priced alternatives
I did the leakdown test today. I got a shitty one from harbor freight. At first when I hooked it up I couldnt get the guage to get to zero. it was around 30%, then I realized that it was leaking between the tester and the spark plug hose adaptor.
Once I held those to parts together and got it down to zero. It didnt really show any leakage. I could hear a little comeing from the dip stick tube, but that was it.
I let it warm up first, watching everything carefully. The top rad hose and pressure in it, the overflow was raising slowly. Then once the MS guage read around 190, and the stock guage was around 1/4, the overflow filled up faster. Then the stock guage jumped from 1/4 to just over 1/2 for a second then up to hot and started dinging. I shut it off the coolant was boiling into the overflow and MS guage rose to around 207 then went down
So I don’t know what else to check. Any one from Hybrid want to PM me with a estimated quote on how much it would be to fix my problem?
