blown head gasket

**ultra_badass** · 01-16-2011, 08:53 AM

well got in it this morning to got the store and started it up and white smoke comming out of the tail pipes soo time for me to do what iv been wanting to do anyways engine is comming out and ls6 intake,new clutch, headers, and maybe a cam of such

**Knight** · 01-16-2011, 09:49 AM

Originally Posted by ultra_badass

well got in it this morning to got the store and started it up and white smoke comming out of the tail pipes soo time for me to do what iv been wanting to do anyways engine is comming out and ls6 intake,new clutch, headers, and maybe a cam of such

That's the way to do it, take a repair and make it an upgrade.

**ultra_badass** · 01-16-2011, 01:43 PM

ok well after looking at this more closely i noticed a lil water about the #5 injector so i decided to pull the spark plug and well it was wet ok fine so i pull the other 4 and there all dry pull the other side all dry so my ? is wtf is going on here ?

**Jay37** · 01-16-2011, 02:58 PM

That's probably your cylinder with the leak.

Edit

Are you saying you also had water on the injector, I.E. on the out side of the engine? Kinda confused on your confusion lol. Also what was the plug wet with, fuel, oil, coolant? Can you do a compression test for us? Hope that helps.

**ultra_badass** · 01-16-2011, 07:06 PM

the plug was wet with coolant jay

**Jay37** · 01-16-2011, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by ultra_badass

the plug was wet with coolant jay

Right on brother, So that just means that was your cylinder affected by the bad head gasket, So your original plan sounds solid to me too.

**ultra_badass** · 01-17-2011, 03:05 PM

jay you where right it was the cylinder that was affected by it alright so much so that the sleeve and the water jacket on #5 was cracked so block= junkyard

**ultra_badass** · 01-17-2011, 04:28 PM

The cracked cylinder Attachment 20233

**Jay37** · 01-17-2011, 04:30 PM

Any one else see what I saw? I might of finally lost my last marble.

**ultra_badass** · 01-17-2011, 04:39 PM

thanks jay im still in ahh about all of this i didnt think this was going to be the result of it

**Jay37** · 01-17-2011, 05:03 PM

Well Mr. Badass I will make the same recomendation I do (and Mr. Grigo is the one that sold me on it.)all the time. Steel block, 5.3 heads, all the other variables will be dependent on money, your own capabilities, and how anal you are.

I currently am building one and 150 for the block and 200 for the heads. If I was younger neither one would go to the machine shop.