Just repaired head gasket...

[RoB51988]

So after about a 12 hour day putting it all back together and 20 hours of taking it apart and cleaning all the parts, it starts up. But it seemes like the exhaust isnt on there tight enought because it looks like there is exhaust smoke coming out from the back of the engine where the exhaust connects. But the only other thing that seems wrong is the idle is really low. It seems like it doesnt have enough power to stay running and just stalls out. Does anyone have any ideas on what it might be or how to get the idle speed up?

[Airjer_]

Are you sure you have all of the vacuum hoses back on?

[RoB51988]

there's a hose not clamped at the top of the intake is whistling. That would cause it? I'll try to record a video and put a like from YouTube on here so you can see in detail. There's also a lot of white smoke coming out of the tail pipe but it revs up real smooth

[Blt2Lst]

Originally Posted by RoB51988

there's a hose not clamped at the top of the intake is whistling. That would cause it? I'll try to record a video and put a like from YouTube on here so you can see in detail. There's also a lot of white smoke coming out of the tail pipe but it revs up real smooth

White smoke out of the tailpipe, not a good sign.
Did you check for a cracked head while you had it off?
Just my

Good luck

Al

[RoB51988]

ya there were no obvious cracks I did look around to see, but before I replaced the gaskets it wasn't half as bad. I used some wd40 to try and remove some surface rust off the cylendar wall I'm hoping that's all it's that burning off

[Airjer_]

Get a used motor!

[RoB51988]

I just put 250 dollars in parts and tools and 30+ hrs of time into this. It's not my only car it was pretty much a project but Ide like to get it working.

[LeSabre97mint]

Originally Posted by RoB51988

So after about a 12 hour day putting it all back together and 20 hours of taking it apart and cleaning all the parts, it starts up. But it seemes like the exhaust isnt on there tight enought because it looks like there is exhaust smoke coming out from the back of the engine where the exhaust connects. But the only other thing that seems wrong is the idle is really low. It seems like it doesnt have enough power to stay running and just stalls out. Does anyone have any ideas on what it might be or how to get the idle speed up?

Rob

Is this your first headgasket job? Is the engine noisy? If you're hearing noise from where the manifold connects to the head then there is something in there keeping it from coming in contact. You could just be seeing something burning off. If this is the case it should stop smoking once it gets good and hot.

I would start with making sure you got ALL of the vacuum hoses put back on. Listen for vacuum leaks with the engine running.

Next do a compression test to make sure that the heads and the the headgaskets and rings are doing their job

Have you had this car running before you did the headgasket job? Do you know how it ran before?

Regards,

Dan

[RoB51988]

Ok I figured out the exhaust problem. I tightened the bolts up and there was a lot of stuff burning off the engine. The car ran kinda rough before I started the job. It kinda was like put put put with a white cloud of smoke coming out of the tail pipe. It doesn't do that anymore. Now, when it was all completed and put back together, it ran nice but there was a very lot of exhaust smoke for about 10-15 minutes but that stopped. Now it runs fine but the check engine light is on and there's some white smoke coming out of the engine oil dip stick. What does this mean?

[RoB51988]

By the way, it took the check engine light took about 25-30 minutes to come on. And all vacuum hoses are back on.

[RoB51988]

engine light is solid and olny thing I see is white smoke coming from dip stick. I just replaced ok gaskets also. What does this mean?

[LeSabre97mint]

Rob

Is this white smoke coming out when the engine is running? Have you changed the oil after the HG job?

Dan

[RoB51988]

Its only smoking when the engine it on or hot still. Its also coming out of the motor oil cap. I changed the oil and the oil filter right before i tired to start the car back up. It wasnt doing this before.

[Willyum]

White means water. Could you have gotten water in the crankcase?

[LeSabre97mint]

Rob

Let the engine cool down and pull the sparkplugs out and look for water on eny of them. I'm thinking that you may have put a headgasket on backwords, or upside down. Or the other thought I have is that there is a cracked head.

Why did the HGs need replacing?

Dan