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- Jan 3, 2009
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- Location
- Salem, OR
- Vehicle Year
- 1986
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 2.3
- Transmission
- Manual
I finished working on my gf's car this weekend because she over heated the living f%ck out of it and she wanted to "get home" so she kept driving it until it literally wouldn't run anymore. I'm extremely aggravated at this whole situation because she didn't even bother looking at the temperature gauge and now I feel like I want to scrap the car because I'm tired of working on it. We bought it a couple months ago with a rod knock so I swapped the engine for a low mileage junkyard one and spent a lot of my time and money on it just for her to trash it.
Anyway, there wasn't any coolant in the radiator when I towed the car home. At this point it wouldn't even start. It turned over like it had no compression. I took a compression test and it has 65, 35, 45, 80 psi in the cylinders 1-4. I didnt do a leak down test because I figured she blew the head gasket. I spent all day to pull the head gasket (it's an MLS one) and can't visually see anything wrong with it. I don't have any way to see if the head is warped/flat...if that is even that possible to cause a no compression scenario?
Any help or insight would be extremely helpful!
Anyway, there wasn't any coolant in the radiator when I towed the car home. At this point it wouldn't even start. It turned over like it had no compression. I took a compression test and it has 65, 35, 45, 80 psi in the cylinders 1-4. I didnt do a leak down test because I figured she blew the head gasket. I spent all day to pull the head gasket (it's an MLS one) and can't visually see anything wrong with it. I don't have any way to see if the head is warped/flat...if that is even that possible to cause a no compression scenario?
Any help or insight would be extremely helpful!