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2blue

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88 mustang cobra vehicle was parked 2 months and today i started it and lots of white smoke could be seen. antifreeze could be seen leaking from the exhaust so i have 2 questions...

what could be causing this???

is this a common problem???

 

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Copperstang87

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leaking from the exhaust where abouts on the car? the exhaust header or out the tailpipe?

 

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headgasket would be my guess...

 

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headgasket

 

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2blue

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EXHAUST HEADER IS WHERE ITS LEAKING FROM...SO ITS THE HEAD GASKET....HOW HARD IS THAT TO CHANGE??

 

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well you need to take off the head. It'll take a little while.

 

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2blue

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never done it before is there a how to on this site...ill look...

 

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condensation???

 

5.0Droptop

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intake manifold gasket,head gasket, throttle body coolant line leak.---> if on the passinger side.

 

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2blue

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well if its the head gasket is it better to rebuild the engine or fix the problem...?...is there any rebuild specials on this site...specially for canadians?

 

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if your not sure where its leaking from, I would do a compression test and leak down test etc, or have a shop diagnos it,

It is not possible to say if the motor needs rebuilt with out know how many miles are on it and if it was regularly maintained etc etc. Head gasket failure dosent necessarily mean the motor is junk. many times you can just pull the heads have them checked out and freshened up. Or maybe consider upgrading to better heads at this point. My old motor had 125000 miles on it when i added thumpers ported heads and a comp cam and other items. I recently built a new motor and swapped it out.

 

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2blue said:

well if its the head gasket is it better to rebuild the engine or fix the problem...?...is there any rebuild specials on this site...specially for canadians?

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well, rebuilding the engine would fix the problem because you put new gaskets among other things during the process.

 

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2blue

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Okay is rebuilt motors exspensive? like is there anyone one this site that does it?

 

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2blue

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Also can someone direct me to a webpage on how to change head gasket...pictures would really help...

 

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I suggest you buy a Haynes or Chiltons manual. They will help you out big time on a variety of different things.

 

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2blue

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Yep first thing in the morning going to get one and look at this engine and see if i can do it....change head gasket that is...

 

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2blue said:

Yep first thing in the morning going to get one and look at this engine and see if i can do it....change head gasket that is...

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You have to do both sides when you change head gaskets. Something to do with compression I think. But make sure you do both.

Your also gonna need a torque wrench. To re-torque the head bolts and intake bolts down to specs. Good Luck man hope everything goes smooth. Might want to grab a friend when you start to work on it.

 

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2blue

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i have a real feeling im going to hate tommarow....lol....

 

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It's not that bad, maybe you'll even like changing the head gaskets.

 

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Everyone loves changing head gaskets the first hour or two. But around hour 4 or 5 everyone hates their POS car and their back after leaning over the fender.