Buggyman
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I am working on pulling the heads off a 2000 3.0 Flex fuel motor I installed in my 1998 Ranger. My brother has driven it for the past few years and he installed a new water pump and started to have issues with it overheating, it reportedly overheated multiple times on him but he allowed it to cool down then would keep driving. He was getting a miss fire reported in cylinder 2, I did a compression test and that cylinder struggled to produce 60 PSI while other cylinders averaged around 120-150 PSI, glove test on the radiator did have some bounce to it.
I have removed the driver side head so far, just have to take out the bolts to remove the passenger side, kids got hungry and had to stop. I have never done head gaskets before so I am not 100% sure what I am looking for when examining for a blown gasket, nothing real obvious is suggesting that its blown out. I do have a significant amount of oil in the lower and upper intake, also there has been a large amount of oil that is on the engine block below the heads, looks like it all originated from the head gasket.
My question is where should I go from here? I plan to take the heads to a machine shop to have them cleaned and tested and obviously install new head gaskets. Could this problem be related to a valve malfunctioning or could it be something with the cylinders such as the rings? Coolent passages appeared to be clear, not clean but not clogged either.
Any advice would be great, want to make sure I am not missing anything obvious.
I will upload better pictures later when I don't have a toddler screaming in my ear.
Thanks guys,
Philip
I have removed the driver side head so far, just have to take out the bolts to remove the passenger side, kids got hungry and had to stop. I have never done head gaskets before so I am not 100% sure what I am looking for when examining for a blown gasket, nothing real obvious is suggesting that its blown out. I do have a significant amount of oil in the lower and upper intake, also there has been a large amount of oil that is on the engine block below the heads, looks like it all originated from the head gasket.
My question is where should I go from here? I plan to take the heads to a machine shop to have them cleaned and tested and obviously install new head gaskets. Could this problem be related to a valve malfunctioning or could it be something with the cylinders such as the rings? Coolent passages appeared to be clear, not clean but not clogged either.
Any advice would be great, want to make sure I am not missing anything obvious.
I will upload better pictures later when I don't have a toddler screaming in my ear.
Thanks guys,
Philip
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