I need help. please. for the love of god

I think I blew the head gasket, but someone told me i could have blown the engin. i need help please im in the middle of nowhere.

If anyone lives in north carolina ill freegin pay for advice i dont have a means to get to work tomorrow im screwed!
anyone in north carolina plz ill apreciate the help im in 813-751-4702
thanks!!!
-S

 

Why don't you try posting in the SE section of the forum.

 

Good luck, bro. Search when you get a chance about blown coolant seals.

James

 

definatly NEED MORE INFORMATION to try and help you get back on the road.

for starters, there are no headgaskets, so you didn't blow those.

if it wasn't long distance I'd call you but that far + my cellphone = probably about $2.00 a minute.

 

I got off the phone with him a few mins ago.

Free nights and weekends FTW.

He told me he blew a coolant hose, basically overheated it, when he got it to start there was some white smoke and it smelled like burning coolant.

Told him to do the rad cap + bubble check in the rad to check for blown coolant seals.

James

 

I just got a call from one of you guys. thanks a HELL OF A LOT BUNCH by the way...

well here's the way it went:
-the car blew the radiator hose yesterday and i bought the hose. i realized it was still over normal temperature so i bought a radiator and the thermostat.
when i installed the rad i drove it to autoparts store (.5 miles) to see how it was doing.. it ran good. i shut it off to pick up the thermostat and i changed it. when i tried to crank it up it started REAL weird.. like cold start or something (like when u run on 3 cylinders on a 4 cylinder car) ... then it just wouldnt crank up (it choked two times then woulndt start - starter keeps just cranking)
there's like, white-ish smoke (like coolant) coming fom where i thought it was the head gasket so i ilooked down and by the exhaust, there was the smoke comng out from (where the gasket to the rest of the exhaust tube goes) plus a few leaks of what i saw it was coolant (green, waterly fluid)
and thats all it does if i wanna crank it up.. keeps cranking and blowing smoke from there.
did i really kill the engine?
could it be something else other than the coolant seals?

I wanna special thank everyone that txted me and called me out of nowhere. i'm new here and know nobody at all and yet u guys jumped and helped me out. don't know what to say.. thanks.

 

Did you replace the thermostat with the OEM one? You should have if you didn't.

 

is that bad? what happens if i bought the one advance auto parts sold me???

 

Aftermarket thermostats can open up at temperatures not engineered for your engine. Every thread I have seen regarding thermostats leads to the same answer - get the OEM thermostat, period. It saves problems down the road.

 

...So i blew up the engine becaus eof teh shitty thermostat?
i wanna shoot mself on the head. i cant afford an engine rebuilt.. i only have like 800 bucks left... and nobody tha i know that can do it in jacksonville NC...

 

no, i think you blew your engine when you overheated it.

 

damm that sucks..hope everything turns out ok ...

 

Good thing it wasn't the head gasket. That'd be a real bitch.

 

^ haha ^

damn man that sucks, id do the rebuild if i was there..but you know how that goes..i hope that your motor is savable..

:AA:

 

Overheat=Blown motor

 

+1. He said he just got the car yesterday...

Hope the housings didn't get warped or anything, and that you just need new coolant seals, if indeed the motor is blown...

Let us know.

James

 

if its just white smoke.
your probably not THAT bad off.
in my other engine.. i had blue, black and white smoke comin out. and all sorts of smells running off of one rotor (hopin to unstick some seals.. i kept driving it like that.)
that i got smart and realized it wasnt the seals. it was just a bad engine.

 

i have a whole other car with a good engine that ill sell you. the link is in my sig. PM me if you have an offer, im pretty flexible on price.

-masin

 

Dude...Just buy a new head gasket.

 

A overhaul kit would fix all your troubles, they run around $500-$800. There's a shop near Holly Ridge on the way to Jacksonville (HW17) that usually has some 1st Gen's sitting out front, they could do the work for you I'm sure and probably wouldn't over charge you on labor. Would take roughly about a week or so for them to get all that done if you had the parts already, maybe looking at 2 weeks roughly if you had to order the stuff.

If you need any parts or mechanical help let me know, I just moved back from Okinawa and have a container of parts and motors that will be arriving in December. I'm going to be spending most of Xmas sitting in my garage rebuilding my disassembled FD that's being shipped in.

Do you have a FD?

Give me a call anytime, 678 232 6643

Steve

 

K&W Block Seal FTW!!!!

It saved Fero313's car for 2 YEARS!!

 

Well I looked it up a bit more today w daylight...
I THINK I blew the coolin' seals...and worst case scenario I went off the apex seals. Not very sure. first engine I fry in my life to be honest. As for the 'head gasket'... lol yeah some dude that told me he knew about rotaries told me that first and i kept walking around asking people that knew rotaries bout i and kept laughin'.
Oh wellz... asof right now i got the car towed to i believe the only import shop around my area waiting for a compression check. Ill be drivin' my 1st gen till the other one comes back to life.

 

UHm...a compression check in a rotary won't really show integrity of coolant seals. It's not like a bad headgasket in a piston engine in that respect. The only thing coolant seals and compression share is that if the chamber is flooded with coolant, compression will drop as the coolant washes the oily film off the housings.

This is also why you have a hard time starting...coolant in the chamber lowers compression and splashes onto the sparkplug, preventing ignition.

Based on what you\ve said here I dont think there's any debate...go ahead and plan for the rebuild.

http://www.rotaryresurrection.com/2n...l_failure.html