I have, sitting in my drive, a '98 cavalier. The problem I'm having, is that when I try to start it, there is coolant shooting up through one of the head bolts. i have been told that it could be a cracked head, a cracked block, or just a blown head gasket. I was wondering, could anyone help me out to identify more precisely what the problem is?
you will have to tear it down to find out
any ideas as to what it could be?
its probably the gasket id have the head checked just to make sure its ok when you pull the head you can look at the gasket. is the bolt loose
it shouldn't be. What actually happened, is on a move from Ohio to OK, it started getting rather warm. turned on the heater, and pulled into a truck stop and it went back down. got a ways up the road, and it started doing it again. This time, i was fortunate enough to come up on a gas station, where i was able to put some water on it to cool it down. After this, it was fine for quite a while. on m way to work this past september, it started happening atgain, but this time when i turned on the heater, it wouldn't cool down. as i was pulling into work, all of a sudden it was smoking like a freight train, and that's when it wouldn't start again. At first, I thought that it was the head gasket, but then one of the technicians said that it was something that he hadn't seen before. after looking at it for a little bit, he said that it looked like it was either a cracked head, or a cracked block. later that month, i got transferred to a different store. yesterday, i was talking with one of the techs, and he said that it sounded like it was a cracked head. today, i was talking with one of the alignment techs, and he told me that from what it sounds like, it was either a cracked head or just a head gasket. so sright now, i really don't know what to check for first
the heads are really bad ive replace 6 2.2 heads this month id say its eather the gasket or both the only way to find out is to tear it down
if it is the head, would i be able to put a head from a '97 cav on it?
