Blown headgasket. What's next?
I have about 50 miles on my 5.9 magnum swap. The engine came out of my wrecked ram. The truck had been maintained well. My grandpa bought it new and gave it to me when I turned 16. I drove it for 8 years and ended up totaling it when I got rear ended by a tow truck. I cleaned it up, added an air gap intake, headers, 2.5 inch dual exhaust, 727 and stuck it in my '70 dart. I put a junk used 600cfm edelbrock on it to fire it up but replaced it yesterday with a new 625 cfm street demon. I was out playing around and messing with the timing and carb to get it all somewhat dialed in. I was in third gear at about 4,000 RPM when it started POURING smoke out from the breather and exhaust.
Got it home and pulled it apart. Coolant system held pressure. It burned about 3 quarts of oil in about a mile. The headgaskets failed on cylinders 3 and 4 from the cylinder to crankcase. Timing is at 15-16° initial and 35 or so when revved up.
What could have made it blow in two places on different sides at the same time? I hope to have the heads checked out and cleaned up at a machine shop and new valves seals at the least. I want to make sure this doesnt happen again. I have pictures from the passenger side head but my phone died when I did the driver side.
I have about 50 miles on my 5.9 magnum swap. The engine came out of my wrecked ram. The truck had been maintained well. My grandpa bought it new and gave it to me when I turned 16. I drove it for 8 years and ended up totaling it when I got rear ended by a tow truck. I cleaned it up, added an air gap intake, headers, 2.5 inch dual exhaust, 727 and stuck it in my '70 dart. I put a junk used 600cfm edelbrock on it to fire it up but replaced it yesterday with a new 625 cfm street demon. I was out playing around and messing with the timing and carb to get it all somewhat dialed in. I was in third gear at about 4,000 RPM when it started POURING smoke out from the breather and exhaust.
Got it home and pulled it apart. Coolant system held pressure. It burned about 3 quarts of oil in about a mile. The headgaskets failed on cylinders 3 and 4 from the cylinder to crankcase. Timing is at 15-16° initial and 35 or so when revved up.
What could have made it blow in two places on different sides at the same time? I hope to have the heads checked out and cleaned up at a machine shop and new valves seals at the least. I want to make sure this doesnt happen again. I have pictures from the passenger side head but my phone died when I did the driver side.
