Stalling and rough Idle After Sparkplugs Change
12-29-17, 04:58 PM
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hey guys! thanks a lot for all the replies, sorry for my absence, now i am here, with good news and bad news.. good news: we found out whats wrong, the car is leaking water into the cylinders, bad news: obviously we had to take the engine out, and test the cylinder heads to see if its need resurface, it had a burned head gasket, so we're replacing all the engine gaskets taking advantage of the engine being out and disarmed.. here a few photos of the dirt and the residue left by the water causing misfire in the cylinders
just the labor is gonna cost me 500$ + parts because the mech is a close friend..
even tho this is a bummer dealing with all this, were getting thru it!
just the labor is gonna cost me 500$ + parts because the mech is a close friend..
even tho this is a bummer dealing with all this, were getting thru it!
12-29-17, 10:22 PM
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$500 is cheap why didn't this show up on a compression test , you can take the heads off in the car, and why did the head gasket fail, how many miles?? just seems strange this wasn't picked up earlier, do you give the car a hard time?? just my mechanical brain trying to workout why it failed keep us informed cheers.
12-29-17, 11:14 PM
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If im not wrong the last thing my mech did was the compression test, we thought it was a faulty coil or sparkplug.. i dont really know why the head gasket fail, but it had a little cracked on the inside, i will take some pictures next time i go to the shop, the car has 122k, and in 2016 they did the camgear recall, i dont know if that has to do something with the gasket, but that was the last time the engine was disarmed.. obviously it was the toyota dealer of my country, but i wouldnt be surprise if they used a faulty or used gasket just to not replace it with new ones when the did the recall.
To be honest i drive like a grandma Lol almost 3 years with the car daily driving it, until 6 months ago i start using another vehicle and just getting in it on weekends, and a month ago a start daily driving it again and this happens.
To be honest i drive like a grandma Lol almost 3 years with the car daily driving it, until 6 months ago i start using another vehicle and just getting in it on weekends, and a month ago a start daily driving it again and this happens.
12-30-17, 06:58 AM
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Okay, i will let you guys know! I was thinking of buying the gasket set online, which one will you suggest me? Ebay/amazon? I dont know which one to order, theres a big price difference between them
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