Little video fun, Head gasket,lower intake manifold? both?!?! who knows! lets guess!

**DasGTP** · 11-08-2014

Well. given. But enjoy the video. I went and picked it up from my old home. Topped it off with water... Drove it 100+ miles. to my new home. Not once did it want to over heat. was a 42* day. Drove it normal. then hard. seeing if it would crack under pressure. never raised past 110-115* no thermostat keep in mind... So yesterday i went to Nashville IL about 80 miles. and 8 miles from where i need to be. it spikes from 110-210 instance. then 260+ no where to pull over or anything. kept going. watching the needle touch the 10-mph mark. so WELL over 300* within seconds got a mile down got off the road. cracked the cap went down to 210 then drained it of air bubbles. water etc. kept going. was getting about 6-10 miles before it started again.. All this time the belt was running the water pump wrong way. simple fix at the part store. 36$ later. topped it off ran great and never touched 100-110 again. til hitting Missouri and 14-18 miles from home. it started it again. another bubbles was raising and lowering as i speed up and let off and high rpm drop from 210-100*, So i figure i post a video of what it's doing. The OIL still is not milky?!?!?!?!?. and it really don't have any power lost or anything. very faint white smoke. take awhile to over heat at times. but the bubbles. even at start up can pop the cap with air. but what gets me the most is. shouldn't it over heat with in mins and such? and Really not caring for the 3100 at 300,000+ miles. wondering if i could get away with trying Bar leak head-gasket repair for giggles. to see if i can get another couple miles out of it. Regarding anything. I'm buying a 3800 or 3400. but just want to mess around with it til it completely dead, and to see if that bar leak would attempt to work til i find a 3800 or 3400 worth buying.

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**Scottydoggs** · 11-08-2014

that all looks like a blown head gasket to me.

blue devil does seem to work.

**02NavyBlue** · 11-08-2014

If the air coming from the thermostat housing or radiator smells like exhaust, it's a no brainer it's the head gasket. But if you did that on a good engine with no cap, you could boil the coolant and get it to do something like that, but it wouldn't smell like exhaust.

**DasGTP** · 11-08-2014

02Navy this is simply fun and joke from last post. . but. Air comes from overflow. Bubbles come and air from the cap. Air comes from thermostat when taking the bolt out. So... I'm leaning and knowing I have a head gasket issue.. It was a good strong motor and never had issues til a friend used it and the compressor locked up. Snapping the belt. And then me being out of town they had a idiot at autozone put a belt going the wrong way for the pump. But worked.. Oddly. For quite awhile. Then started overheating out of the blue. And now gotten to this point. Moral of the story. Don't let your friend use you car because she told me hit 260* for 3-4 miles to the store.. Common sense if it spiked at all into red to kill it let it cool down and call or have it looked at.. I wasn't told til I got back a week later..

**02NavyBlue** · 11-08-2014

We have seen that a few times on here, don't let your friend borrow your car lol

**Scottydoggs** · 11-08-2014

you need new friends lol

**02NavyBlue** · 11-08-2014

Kinda true lol. I know friends that I'd trust, and some I wouldn't. Mostly wouldnt

**Slick2500** · 11-08-2014

Its a 3100 head gaskets are prone to go out on those things.

**DasGTP** · 11-08-2014

Well. She is amazing friend. Would do it all over, she didn't truly know anything more then put gas. And stay looking good. Legally blonde.. To the B.. Her car was in s hit and run, I wasn't needing it. And just can't let her not provide for her or her 3 year old son.. Wasn't her fault.... She didn't know what happened. If anyone was to blame was autozone, I have always stayed away and never bought **** from them, common sense so the belt direction.... And you can't just bypass the compressor with out the kit.... But all after that. I drove it. Knowing it was going to happen, basic excuse to upgrade..

**Scottydoggs** · 11-08-2014

damn girls lol i hope your hitting it at least lol

**DasGTP** · 11-09-2014

Lmafo, yes. Quite a few times. Let me tell ya. Red heads.... Nothing else compared, haha. But now that we both have amazing people we have met, we are best of friends.. So end the end wouldn't change it. Her son loved it called it the speed car, she loved it. And looked damn cute.. Red head with a teal blue mix. Can't get no better! And now she wants to learn about cars. So. Best of everything..