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I got this car from craigslist.
1999 Festiva L, $300.00 nice body with nice wheels & tires.
Severe Blow by & low compression .
So I pulled engine and put in rings and bearings, all new gaskets, water pump, thermostat, and timing belt ,had the head checked out and surfaced at the machine shop and dropped it back in .
Now 3 months later wife says she has no heat,
I figured that the P.O. probably filled the thing with bars leak or such.
so I flushed the heater core .
The heater core flows fine , So I look at the engine and there is very little dribble from intake manifold heater hose port,( with engine running and water hose in rad).
I turned off the engine and put the water hose into the ports that the heater core had been on and backflow the intake and head .
Now I got water from the tailpipe, After I shut it down Cylinder 2 hydrolocked ,pulled plug and spun the engine to clear the water .
I don't think the engine was very hot with water hose in radiator and heater return pipe plugged .
I got this car from craigslist.
1999 Festiva L, $300.00 nice body with nice wheels & tires.
Severe Blow by & low compression .
So I pulled engine and put in rings and bearings, all new gaskets, water pump, thermostat, and timing belt ,had the head checked out and surfaced at the machine shop and dropped it back in .
Now 3 months later wife says she has no heat,
I figured that the P.O. probably filled the thing with bars leak or such.
so I flushed the heater core .
The heater core flows fine , So I look at the engine and there is very little dribble from intake manifold heater hose port,( with engine running and water hose in rad).
I turned off the engine and put the water hose into the ports that the heater core had been on and backflow the intake and head .
Now I got water from the tailpipe, After I shut it down Cylinder 2 hydrolocked ,pulled plug and spun the engine to clear the water .
I don't think the engine was very hot with water hose in radiator and heater return pipe plugged .
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