....blown about 20mins ago!!

Any advice for replacing?

What gasket to use?

Tips or Tricks?

Head skim?

etc......

Thanks!

 

check for water in the pistons, and if any the valves are bent. The head will need reskimming before you refit it and a headgasket kit

 

just make sure new timeing belt as well and tenioner

 

and water pump while your at it

 

Heres a big tip for when its rebuilt

DONT BE A CHEAP SKATE AND HAVE IT SET UP

 

Karlos G
a bit more info would be nice

1 did it overheat
2 did you run it out of water
3 did you drive it
or did you run far too much boost !!!!!!

 

My money is on too much boost

 

Was driving at the time, had been giving her some stick!
Running 14psi
Didnt over heat.
Didnt run out of water still had some in the header tank.
Creamy oil in rocker cover and dipstick.

 

he might be lucky with a skim, pressure test an a new cam belt then

lets hope he got towed home

 

Drove 12 miles home, and the cam belt was done 4 weeks ago.

 

just seen your last post whats your symptoms then mate ????

 

So...........am i right in saying someone has been doing a bit of DIY boost adjustments?

 

SafeChav

more boost is nice if you can fix it when it goes bang

 

Ideally it shouldn't go bang..............

 

SafeChav yep i know where your coming from lol been there !! its fun
Karlos G come on whats happening under your bonnet then ???

 

Dont use any other gasket that genuine ford/Payen gasket !!!!!!

 

Safechav, no DIY boost ajustment! was setup on the rollers about a month ago after a new cam belt was fitted.

 

then you want to be finding the reason the gasket failed before fitting a new one if thats the case or it'll probably just do it again!

 

hmmmmmm..............

I've just stripped the engine down (thought i might as well do piston rings and big end shells whilst i'm at it) and noticed that the ACT (the one in the charge carrier pipe, think its the ACT) sensor was unplugged, could that have effected it?

 

hmmmmmmmm, hard to say the ignition ECU uses the sensor but i can't see it making the difference between popping your gasket and not.

Have you identified where the gasket has failed yet

 

Hard to say its not obvious (well not to me anyway!) but No.1 had water in and 2 3 & 4 were dry.

 

Should be obvious if its gone to that extent!

Or...........you could have a cracked head or block in that case.....

 

Dont know if you can see well enough from this photo..

 

hehehe ok that was bigger than i thought!

 

Ive zoomed it up but the resolution isnt very high, top left conrner between 10-11 o'clock looks suspect, you need to pull the gasket off the head though and inspect both sides

 

yeah will do, had to reduce the quality of the image 300Kb limit on avatarimage.net!

 

And just out of interest was there actually any antifreeze in it everything is orange

 

Ive just about rebuilt my engine aswell. What exactly gets done when it gets "set up"?

cheers

 

No there wasnt, changed a water pipe not long back and didnt put any in when i refilled with water

 

thats been slowly rotting your gasket and cooling system out......

 

ah! something to remember!