Zundfolge
Always learning...
I think I already know what you're thinking and THANK GOD I'm asking for a friend, and not for myself (at least yet).
I helped a friend do some maintenance on his van the other night, he's getting ready to sell it and he did a fly/buy from the east coast (we're in CA) a few years ago, coming home with a rusty-ass hunk that didn't really run right (shame on him for hardly consulting me about it!).
Anyway, it's always had issues and the PO('s) effed this thing up in a few different directions. More to the point, it idles a little rough, blows black smoke like crazy, and he said it will periodically not go over 60mph.
I did a leak-off test, but all I had was 5/16"ID clear tubing, not 3/8"ID so using the 1 1/2" method was maybe not as reliable, and I didn't have a way to measure the volume. Just for information's sake though, #1 and #5 both had 1 1/2" of fuel. Reading another current thread here right now about pressure building up in the cooling system and it jogged my memory that while we were working on the thing for like 4 hours, the coolant cap would periodically squeak and burp, and I'm now realizing that he may have a much bigger issue than he can deal with on his hands.
Two bad injectors, and a head gasket? Does a periodically burping coolant cap hours after shutdown possibly mean anything else?
I helped a friend do some maintenance on his van the other night, he's getting ready to sell it and he did a fly/buy from the east coast (we're in CA) a few years ago, coming home with a rusty-ass hunk that didn't really run right (shame on him for hardly consulting me about it!).
Anyway, it's always had issues and the PO('s) effed this thing up in a few different directions. More to the point, it idles a little rough, blows black smoke like crazy, and he said it will periodically not go over 60mph.
I did a leak-off test, but all I had was 5/16"ID clear tubing, not 3/8"ID so using the 1 1/2" method was maybe not as reliable, and I didn't have a way to measure the volume. Just for information's sake though, #1 and #5 both had 1 1/2" of fuel. Reading another current thread here right now about pressure building up in the cooling system and it jogged my memory that while we were working on the thing for like 4 hours, the coolant cap would periodically squeak and burp, and I'm now realizing that he may have a much bigger issue than he can deal with on his hands.
Two bad injectors, and a head gasket? Does a periodically burping coolant cap hours after shutdown possibly mean anything else?