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driving to school I believe I blew my headgasket. I wasn't driving very fast, and I had noticed that the engine was missing pretty badly. I came to a stop and saw an ungodly amount of pure white smoke coming out from under my hood. I figured it was overheated and thought it was steam, but realized it was smoke when I smelled it. Friend stopped by and I asked him to get me some water to refil the reservoir with. I turned my rad fans on to let it cool down for a minute too. While inder the hood, I noticed a wire on the ignitor was stripped, but not broken, so I figured that was why it was missing. Then I tried to restart and it missed like an entire bank of cylinders was not firing and more of the thick white smoke came out the exhaust. It smelled sort of sweet, so I figure that coolant has gotten into the cylinders due to a head gasket leak.
Do gaskets just blow, or does something cause it? Like, what would I need to do to fix it, other than just replacing the gasket? The engine isn't horribly high mileage, 178k. I admit, I drive it hard sometimes, but not for very long (3-5mi).
I have an alltrac I can drive for now if I put an engine in it, and looked on car-part.com for an engine in it. It specified between fwd and awd on the engines, but I thought that a 3sfe was a 3sfe..
Anyway, thanks for any response.
Do gaskets just blow, or does something cause it? Like, what would I need to do to fix it, other than just replacing the gasket? The engine isn't horribly high mileage, 178k. I admit, I drive it hard sometimes, but not for very long (3-5mi).
I have an alltrac I can drive for now if I put an engine in it, and looked on car-part.com for an engine in it. It specified between fwd and awd on the engines, but I thought that a 3sfe was a 3sfe..
Anyway, thanks for any response.