it took me a long time but the car is running again. couldn't take it out because I didn't have enough antifreeze. Spilled a bunch of the antifreeze on the floor. Forgot to hook up the lines going to the heater core. When I powered up the water pump it spewed a bunch of antifreeze out the opening. DOPE!
Fired it up though. Ran a little rough. Ticking which I expected but didn't expect the blue smoke coming out the pipes. After 20-30 seconds it was running good and the blue smoke stopped. I shut it off and looked behind the car. There was burnt paper all over the ground. Thought it was a wasp nest at first. Then I woke up and realized I did another stupid thing. I left the paper towels in the intake ports of the heads on the drivers side when I put the intake back on. I Put them in there to keep crud out of the ports while I cleaned off the old intake gaskets and silicone. DOPE!!!!!!!!!
Glad nothing bad happened. I was able to laugh about it. Thought you guys would enjoy that one.
Just nice to have it running again. Changed the oil before I fired it up. Good thing too because some antifreeze was the first thing to drain out of the pan.
Fired it up though. Ran a little rough. Ticking which I expected but didn't expect the blue smoke coming out the pipes. After 20-30 seconds it was running good and the blue smoke stopped. I shut it off and looked behind the car. There was burnt paper all over the ground. Thought it was a wasp nest at first. Then I woke up and realized I did another stupid thing. I left the paper towels in the intake ports of the heads on the drivers side when I put the intake back on. I Put them in there to keep crud out of the ports while I cleaned off the old intake gaskets and silicone. DOPE!!!!!!!!!
Glad nothing bad happened. I was able to laugh about it. Thought you guys would enjoy that one.
Just nice to have it running again. Changed the oil before I fired it up. Good thing too because some antifreeze was the first thing to drain out of the pan.