I have recently rebuilt my engine after a spark plug blow out blew my motor to pieces after some of the head got down into my running motor. It caused the piston to wedge sideways going up and cracked the block. . ford wanted 7g for a new motor so I just went and pieced one together.

I have patriot heads, stage 2, ross pistons, ross rods, stock steel crank and an upgraded pulley from rpmoutlet. I started the truck up and it ran with very little hesitation. After 30 sec of idling. . . i started to get water comming out of the exhaust. . . alot. The truck began to haze out the back with a fine mist, water was dripping out of the exhaust links where they are bolted together, and I could hear the truck starting to hesitate idle ( but not hydro lock YET ). I have tried to think where I could have gone wrong. . . I used felpro gaskets with the patriot heads and torqued from the center out at 65 ft/bs with arp studs. OH YEAH. . I drained the water from the intercooler/blower just to see if it was comming from up top . . and that didnt make a bit of difference.


ANY SUGGESTIONS ? Is it possible for water to get by brand new felpro head gaskets after just starting it for the first time . . . is it possible to put the head gaskets on upside down . . . .is it possibly the intake manifold gasket somehow . . does water circulate that far up top or does it just stay on the far front and rear of the intake manifold ? PLEASE HELP ANYONE . . I really dont want to take the damn heads back off this thing and reset the timing and timing cover . . . and all of that ! Are there any water passage plugs I could be missing ?

 

Hello how are you.

sorry about your miss fortune

were those new head and a block.
Just curious did you have them check for cracks.

I'm sure someone theat knows more about your engine will answer soon

 

The heads are brand new. . . the block is a used block and it was assembled by a local napa shop that had to bore / hone the cylinders to the proper specs . . they assembled the short block to Ross pistons specs.

 

Could this be coolant left in the exhaust from the original engine melt down? I would disconnect the exhaust at it's low points, drain out any fluid, and run the engine again....

 

Test

 

used block is never a good idea, unless you get a longblock from jasper, the jasper reman blocks are all upgraded and tested on site no surprises with 3 year warranty

 

just curious, how much did you spend?? did you do all the labor??

 

Pull the plugs and see if there is any water in the cylinders. Hard to say whats left in the exhaust from before. With no plugs in the motor, it cant hydrolock, it will just pump the water out of the plug port.

Compression test and basics need to be covered before you panic and rip the whole thing apart.

 

For this new engine I had to take almost the entire exhaust off in order to slide the transmission back enough to separate the engine and the tranny before removing the engine. . . so I am almost positive this isnt left over water from the old engine. . . but pulling the plugs and checking for water in the cylinder is a good idea.

The block was completely gone through and cleaned by napa. . . and Im sure reboring it would have shown any problems with the cylinders. I just wanted to know if it is possible to put the head gaskets on wrong . .or if it is possible to just be the intake manifold gasket. . .didnt know if water circulates up that high in the engine.

I really am thinking. . . if it was the head gasket . . .there would be alot of compression pushing out and not alot drawing water into the cylinder which would probably leak the water somewhere other than INTO the cylinder. . . . unless water was comming in before the intake valves. . . that would be just under a vacuum all the time . . so it probably has to be the intake gaskets . . and thats not too hard to get too.

 

The intake gasket can leak coolant.