beakie
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
Engine... '97 4L with cold air intake, bored TB, 99 intake, Banks header, custom downpipe, newish cat, FW 50 cat back. 193* Tstat, new lower rad hose, old upper hose, Tuarus Fan w/DC controller.
Situation...
Out on the trail today going to a bow hunting site. Driving in 4Low (Aussie up front) doing about 25kph, breaking trail in about 1' 1/2 of powder. Everything was fine, but noticed about 10 minutes down the trail it was one line above normal temp. I kept an eye on the temp, but never got hotter so I continued on.
All of a sudden a gust of something from front of the engine bay, looked like hit snow bank, turns out it was a blown upper rad hose. Steam rolled and I shut it off and pulled over. I fixed it (will take pics of ghetto fab fix job later) put as much water as we had in it (little over 1L at the time) turned back and limped back to hiway. At hiway back in 2wd, pinging started. Kinda sounded like the time my tstat went and really overheated. Almost a loose bolt jingling around in a can, but temp still not crazy. Pulled over, rad overflowing (again) let cool, topped up and kept going.
Finally got to gas station. Temp stayed one line above normal whole way, if even a touch more I stopped and let it cool. At station grabbed some coolant and topped it up again.
Back on the road, things were good, again temp hovered one line above normal, but no more. Temp did change, after a cool down, at station, and after top ups it was back to normal, but quickly moved one line above within a few hundred feet of driving. Tuarus Efan was switched on full on the trail, open road shut off.
Finally after more pinging, and 2 stall/restarts temp went thru the roof and I shut it down. Popped hood, rad cap steaming, and now steam coming from bottom/front of exhuast manifold flange between it and head.
Pushed to parking lot which happens to be local garage. Thats where it sits now.
My thoughts;
cracked head or blown head gasket.
No other idea, obviously not a mech wiz here.
My ideas;
call around for engine swap, let garage swap
look at rebuild, on an engine that has overheated twice before, and now this
take to my normal garage, let them tell me what they think
Was not looking to spend much money on this rig for the next while. If I can swap for less than say $1500 I may bite the bullet. Otherwise its going to be up to what my mech says, and what the good people who will read this advise.
Thanks, for reading and for any thoughts on the subject.
Situation...
Out on the trail today going to a bow hunting site. Driving in 4Low (Aussie up front) doing about 25kph, breaking trail in about 1' 1/2 of powder. Everything was fine, but noticed about 10 minutes down the trail it was one line above normal temp. I kept an eye on the temp, but never got hotter so I continued on.
All of a sudden a gust of something from front of the engine bay, looked like hit snow bank, turns out it was a blown upper rad hose. Steam rolled and I shut it off and pulled over. I fixed it (will take pics of ghetto fab fix job later) put as much water as we had in it (little over 1L at the time) turned back and limped back to hiway. At hiway back in 2wd, pinging started. Kinda sounded like the time my tstat went and really overheated. Almost a loose bolt jingling around in a can, but temp still not crazy. Pulled over, rad overflowing (again) let cool, topped up and kept going.
Finally got to gas station. Temp stayed one line above normal whole way, if even a touch more I stopped and let it cool. At station grabbed some coolant and topped it up again.
Back on the road, things were good, again temp hovered one line above normal, but no more. Temp did change, after a cool down, at station, and after top ups it was back to normal, but quickly moved one line above within a few hundred feet of driving. Tuarus Efan was switched on full on the trail, open road shut off.
Finally after more pinging, and 2 stall/restarts temp went thru the roof and I shut it down. Popped hood, rad cap steaming, and now steam coming from bottom/front of exhuast manifold flange between it and head.
Pushed to parking lot which happens to be local garage. Thats where it sits now.
My thoughts;
cracked head or blown head gasket.
No other idea, obviously not a mech wiz here.
My ideas;
call around for engine swap, let garage swap
look at rebuild, on an engine that has overheated twice before, and now this
take to my normal garage, let them tell me what they think
Was not looking to spend much money on this rig for the next while. If I can swap for less than say $1500 I may bite the bullet. Otherwise its going to be up to what my mech says, and what the good people who will read this advise.
Thanks, for reading and for any thoughts on the subject.