This is what my Head Gasket looked like!

[5 Liter Mustang]

I came back from a good 70 mile trip and parked it. The next day, i went to start it up and it was misfiring badly. I looked at the spark plug wires and there was a ton of corrosion around the terminal on the coil. I thought it was an easy fix. I cleaned the terminal...still misfiring. Then i bought this accel kit and spent a few hours cutting and fitting a new set of wires...still misfiring. I figured out which cylinders weren't firing...numbers 1 and 2. I took a compression test, and both cylinders were low. DAMN HEAD GASKET!!!

it took 3 days of light work to fix, and its up and running again...finally.

 

[5 Liter Mustang]

btw... it did not overheat or anything... i still dont really know why this happened

 

[HO93LX302]

Its possible you had some detonation going on.. Whats your timing set at??? What do you have done to the car?? Even on a completely stock engine there are still chances for detonation to occur

 

[Boss 351]

Ouch... any cylinder wall damage? Who installed the heads the last time?

 

[DirtyD916]

hey at least its fixed. But anyways were they cheapo head gaskets or what?

 

[5 Liter Mustang]

this was the first time the head has been off. This is a 100% stock 30k original mile engine that sat for 10 years..

wouldn't i be able to hear/feel it if detonation was occuring. It ran perfectly before.

 

[5 Liter Mustang]

hey at least its fixed. But anyways were they cheapo head gaskets or what?

they were the stock ones

btw, this place gets fast responses.... thanks

 

[HO93LX302]

it depends if you listen for it you probably would hear it.. But if you weren't then theres a good chance you didn't hear it.. When it gets bad it kinda sounds like golf balls bouncing off the windsheild, i guess thats as best as i can describe it

 

[5 Liter Mustang]

there definitely wasn't detonation.. it just ran like 2 spark plug wires were disconnected.

 

[cardudeusa]

That sucks! Atleast its fixed.

 

[MustangPunk302]

Got that one good... lol Glad you fixed it, prolly where cheapo gaskets, or someone improperly torqued em'.

 

[89MustangGX]

@ cylinder head in the garden.

At least you got it fixed up good now.

 

[IndyBlk5.0]

i wish i would of took pictures of my head gaskets!!! they were COMPLETELY distroyed. all the rings came out of them all torn up. It was horrible...

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

:damnit: that's one big reason i dont like EFI intakes...you've gotta pull the whole upper in order to just remove the valve cover, let alone the heads. Sure, the intakes have to come off anyways in order to pull a head off, but Ford should have (dare i say this) built their intakes like Chevy did their tuned ports, so that the intake comes straight down towards the front of the block..but i guess that wouldnt work with the distributor there...oh well.

 

[5 Liter Mustang]

@ cylinder head in the garden.

At least you got it fixed up good now.

hahah, ya..my dad didn't want me to get the driveway all oily, so i tossed it into the bush.

 

[chevyeater]

bad wires or distributor cap causing eradic crossfiring to those cylinders causing detonation. usually found on cylinders 7&8 on 302 firing order or 6&5 on 351 firing order.the corrosion on the coil wire was probably the culprit.

 

[5 Liter Mustang]

that makes sense... its still weird though, that it was running perfectly the day before. It was strong and everything...

 

[Idwitheld-1`]

Wish my garden would grow heads. I could use some AFR 185's!

 

[cardudeusa]

Wish my garden would grow heads. I could use some AFR 185's!

I have some AFR sead... $1000. for a small bag of 20 seads.

 

[TheUser]

:damnit: that's one big reason i dont like EFI intakes...you've gotta pull the whole upper in order to just remove the valve cover, let alone the heads. Sure, the intakes have to come off anyways in order to pull a head off, but Ford should have (dare i say this) built their intakes like Chevy did their tuned ports, so that the intake comes straight down towards the front of the block..but i guess that wouldnt work with the distributor there...oh well.

I didn't have to pull my upper to remove valve covers...I did pull the throttle body, however