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Ok, so I was driving to my parent's house from school last summer, and I had gone about 30 miles (all on the freeway) when my coolant guage suddenly jumped of the charts. I quickly pulled to the side and there was steam coming out from under the hood and the engine was making a clicking sound. I was only about 20 miles from home, so I called a tow and had it brought to my house. I didn't mess with it for a while because I still had my taurus wagon so I could still get around. One day I went to try and crank it and it would turn over all day long but wouldn't fire. I check the spark plugs and they were all sparking. I tried a couple more times, and still it wouldn't fire, then suddenly it cranked right up! I put water in the radiator, and then it wouldn't crank again. I drianed the radiator, and it fired right up again. Ran great, but without the coolant I couldn't drive long without overheating. Any ideas what went wrong? I'm probably going to do a complete overhaul on the engine, unless someone says that it sounds like I make have something wrong with the block. BTW, its a 1.6L SOHC from a 1989 Mazda 323 MT, running the B3 injectors and ECU.
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Sounds like a blown head gasket to me, eh?
When you put coolant in the radiator, it seeps through the cracks/holes in the head gasket, gets into your combustion chamber, and keeps the shit from firing. That sounds a lot like my car when I blew my head.GT -
Good, thats what I was guessing/hoping happened. Just wanted to get a second opinion before I started taking the thing apart to fix it. Didn't want to rip it all up and find out the the block had cracked or something.No festiva for me ATM...Comment
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Might want to do a compression test before ripping the engine apart, it can tell you a lot about what's wrong.Originally posted by htchbck
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TimWhite '89L auto - Sold!
Silver '06 Rav4, 95k!Comment
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A warped head is possible if it was ran too long on the blown head gasket, but a cracked block? Most likely not.Comment
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