Gasket Disappeared In Motor!!!??? Lol

GoBabyVroommm · Mar 29, 2006

My thermostat gasket is gone. I have been having over heating problems with my car and i've been trying to find out the problem I took out the thermost to see if it was the thermost that went bad but it wasn't it. I didn't have a gasket for it so I made one. I put it on thin and put it back in only to leaked. I did that 3 times then I said F it and made a thick gasket and put it in. Few days later I went back to the garage to do a coolant flush and my roommate was messing around with my car and he was like,"where is that gasket you made?" Then i was like .

I checked the hoses and its not there. I'm guessing that its in the water pump. I took the other side of the hose out and got a water hose out to see if my water pump is still pushing water through and it is. But i'm still worried where this gasket went. What problems am i looking in gettin myself into if I don't find this gasket?

tomustang · Mar 29, 2006

the sealant probably got stuck trying to go though the headgaskets, which have big pinholes but not big enough for sealant chunks to go though

GoBabyVroommm · Mar 29, 2006

Crap do I have to pull my heads off and wouldn't it get stuck in the water pump?

DocG · Mar 29, 2006

As long as coolant flows, should be fine, but hate to see that get stuck in the wrong spot, block your flow, and force you to tear down the whole freakin engine.

Wonder if you can back-flush the entire system and force it back out the way it went in?

GoBabyVroommm · Mar 29, 2006

Is there such a thing to back flush it? Lol I'm sure that would work. Honest if i have to take my crap appear i'm gettin stage II port heads and FR500 cams.

DocG · Mar 29, 2006

Can you hook up your water pump backwards? Wel if you could hook a hose to the bottom of the radiator, and have it drain out of the top, but you probably would never get enough pressure. I never said it was possible, just the only thing I could think of other than a teardown.

tomustang · Mar 29, 2006

you burp the system?

DocG · Mar 29, 2006

tomustang · Mar 29, 2006

DocG2828 said:

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Mike97gt · Mar 29, 2006

tom most people think your kidding if you say burp the system

so let me reask this. DID you bleed the cooling system at all after you opened it.

GoBabyVroommm · Mar 29, 2006

All i did was flush it and that was all.

tomustang · Mar 29, 2006

GoBabyVroommm said:
All i did was flush it and that was all.

theres the problem

you have to 'burp' out all the air in the system in 4V's

Mike: yeah I was like wtf is that the first time i heard it

GoBabyVroommm · Mar 29, 2006

Ok tell me how to do it and i'll go "burp" it. So this gasket makes me worried because of the nitrious.

SLY GT · Mar 29, 2006

It is in your radiator...don't worry abouy it.

DocG · Mar 29, 2006

tomustang said:
?

Sorry....I thought maybe you were just poking fun at me for suggesting back-flushing the system

Mike97gt · Mar 29, 2006

tomustang said:
theres the problem

you have to 'burp' out all the air in the system in 4V's

Mike: yeah I was like wtf is that the first time i heard it

not only in 4v's do you have to bleed the system, you have to bleed any water cooled engine.

GoBabyVroommm · Mar 30, 2006

I'm going to do it all today. Its really warm in chicago. What I really wanna fix more then anything is my over heating problem which happened before i lost the gasket.

CanadaStang · Mar 30, 2006

GoBabyVroommm said:
I'm going to do it all today. Its really warm in chicago. What I really wanna fix more then anything is my over heating problem which happened before i lost the gasket.

Did you check to see if your fan is working?

GoBabyVroommm · Mar 30, 2006

The fan is working fine. The thermost is working, opening and closing. I changed the engine temp sensor which was $13.00 dollars. I checked to see if there was coolant in there was and I even changed the oil. Checked all the hoses and water is going in and out.

I think it maybe a bad water pump or a blew a head gasket. I say head gasket it because i'm losing coolant all the time. If its a head gasket i'm gettin heads and cam. I wish it isn't because then i can just get my blower.

tomustang · Mar 30, 2006

GoBabyVroommm said:
I think it maybe a bad water pump or a blew a head gasket. I say head gasket it because i'm losing coolant all the time. If its a head gasket i'm gettin heads and cam. I wish it isn't because then i can just get my blower.

if you're losing coolant it's either blowing back out the pressure cap OR getting sucked into a chamber and being blown out the exhaust, check for smoke

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