ThunderDave
Registered User
Ok fellas, I REALLY need your help on this one. I replaced the heads over the weekend after they had blown a few weeks ago.
I got it back together and cranked it up. It didn't want to idle smooth, supercharger had high pitched whine to it (at idle), smoking badly and check engine light coming on. A friend that's a mechanic (he's no expert on SC's, he doesn't like to work on them and warned me when I told him I was getting this one, although he's tried to be helpful since the head gasket blew) asked me if I had used gasket sealer on the intake gaskets around the coolant ports, because he thought it could be leaking there and causing the smoke. He also said since they were blown, maybe there was some coolant in the exhaust and would take a while to burn off. It didn't smoke this bad after it blew the gasket. As for the rough idle, he didn't know. He thought maybe a sensor had gone bad. He's coming over tonight with his computer so we can scan it for codes. Does anyone have any ideas so maybe we'll have a headstart on what to look for? It has taken me two weeks to fix my daily driver and I miss it so much.Any info would help and be much appreciated.
Thanks,
David
I got it back together and cranked it up. It didn't want to idle smooth, supercharger had high pitched whine to it (at idle), smoking badly and check engine light coming on. A friend that's a mechanic (he's no expert on SC's, he doesn't like to work on them and warned me when I told him I was getting this one, although he's tried to be helpful since the head gasket blew) asked me if I had used gasket sealer on the intake gaskets around the coolant ports, because he thought it could be leaking there and causing the smoke. He also said since they were blown, maybe there was some coolant in the exhaust and would take a while to burn off. It didn't smoke this bad after it blew the gasket. As for the rough idle, he didn't know. He thought maybe a sensor had gone bad. He's coming over tonight with his computer so we can scan it for codes. Does anyone have any ideas so maybe we'll have a headstart on what to look for? It has taken me two weeks to fix my daily driver and I miss it so much.Any info would help and be much appreciated.
Thanks,
David
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