spray some carb cleaner around the intake while you have the car running that would give you a starting point to see if it is the intake. did you put new head gaskets on when you swaped out heads. could be a head gasket. I blew a head gasket on my car and i didnt see no leaks around the heads. i found out when i changed my oil. about 2 quarts of coolant in pan. check your oil too it will look milky if theres water in it
1.) Check the oil for water - milky brown sluge on the dipstick. If you find water in the oil, find & fix the leak before you do any more driving. The water and oil mix doesn't lubricate, and you could do some damage to the bearings and rods.
2.) Remove the upper manifold and retorque all the lower intake bolts. Look for loose or missing hoses or other vacuuum leak sources.
3.) While you are tightening things, go over all the exhaust header bolts.
If you don't find any evidence of coolant in the oil, you might want to plan a time to stop by for a leakdown test. That would elminate the possiblity of any head gasket problems.
2.) Remove the upper manifold and retorque all the lower intake bolts. Look for loose or missing hoses or other vacuuum leak sources.
3.) While you are tightening things, go over all the exhaust header bolts.
If you don't find any evidence of coolant in the oil, you might want to plan a time to stop by for a leakdown test. That would elminate the possiblity of any head gasket problems.
A compression test. Do it.
Don't rule out the head gaskets because they are new, sometimes they will leak and not actually blow. Did you have the heads resurfaced? There could have been some warpage there. You broke off a bolt in the lower intake? Why not just drill it out yourself and put in a heli-coil?
Don't rule out the head gaskets because they are new, sometimes they will leak and not actually blow. Did you have the heads resurfaced? There could have been some warpage there. You broke off a bolt in the lower intake? Why not just drill it out yourself and put in a heli-coil?
Im having trouble visualizing your problem. Is there any way you can post a pic or describe it better?
To do a heli-coil, you drill the hole a little bigger than the intended bolt size, you tap it, you thread the heli-coil into the threads, it is now the correct size for the intended bolt and is actually stronger than just regular threads cut into part.
To do a heli-coil, you drill the hole a little bigger than the intended bolt size, you tap it, you thread the heli-coil into the threads, it is now the correct size for the intended bolt and is actually stronger than just regular threads cut into part.
EZouts were created by satan to make life harder on people who buy into the gimick. 90% of the total amount of EZouts I or people I know have used, break off in the broken bolt. It might work because the bolt didn't bind up in the hole, but if the EZout does break you'll have bigger problems.
A sharp drill bit and a little bit of pressure will get that bolt right out of there, you'll just have to tap and heli-coil it, which is all the machine shop is going to do anyway if they cant get it out without destroying the threads.
A sharp drill bit and a little bit of pressure will get that bolt right out of there, you'll just have to tap and heli-coil it, which is all the machine shop is going to do anyway if they cant get it out without destroying the threads.