93sprucesc

Hello everyone,

I just recently had a valve job done to my car because I blew a head gasket (according to my mechanic). Before the valve job, my idol was acting weird, my car was vibrating weird, and smoke was coming out of my exhaust. I was losing water and I would look at the engine oil cap and there would be some chocolate like residue which seems that water was getting in the engine. After the valve job everything was fine until recently. The same problems was happening again but this time I am not losing water and there are no signs of chocolate like residue. Does anyone know whats wrong? Is it a blown head gasket? Bad catalytic converter? I do not want to sell my car but it seems like I should since its giving me all of these problems. Please help me out. Thanks

Matt300ZXT

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I've had a car blow a headgasket before and there was no chocolate milk in my engine, but it was still losing water. I'd run a compression check and see where it's at. Did your mechanic shave your head a little before he put it back on last time? If he didn't, the first time it blew, it might have warped it slightly, causing your new headgasket not to last very long.

93sprucesc

Yeah my mechanic sent it out to resurface the head. My mechanic also did a valve job on my 4runner and it is running stronger than ever. I am just hoping there is nothing wrong with the engine and it is fixable to my convenience.

kikcaffine

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Did they put a new head gasket in? Take it back to your mechanic and ask him whats going on with it.

FatBrian81

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If you're idol is acting up it means you're not sacrificing enough virgins to it...

It sounds like you have two unrelated problems. The loosing coolant and oil cap milkshake are dead giveaways of a blown headgasket for about 99% of engines out there. The poor idle and running rough may be due to a bad crank or cam sensor or any number of other things. One question though, did you replace the spark plugs ? Hopefully so since they had to come out anyway to deck the head but it never hurts to ask, the plug from the cylinder that was blown is probably fouled badly.

93sprucesc

Head gasket was replaced, spark plugs and wires, piston rings, distributer cap, timing belt, all the rubber O rings, and basically rebuilt the whole engine. I will take it back to my mechanic but I just wanted to see if anyone else had this problem and what it was. I do not want to get rid of my car so I was wondering what people did with it (for those who had the same problem)

Ali SC3

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you gotta change the rotor in the distributor also. thats usually the culprit more often than the cap is.

93sprucesc

yeah the rotor was replaced too