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I believe I cracked the passenger side cylinder head. And I was wondering, what is the average cost of getting it repaired. I have an 84 RC with a 318. The cylinder heads are stock. I live in Tucson and figured the costs shouldn’t vary too much from Phoenix or around AZ. I am in the Air Force and I don’t have the time right now to work on it myself. I could possibly be leaving for a while. Would it hurt to leave it sitting like that for a few months?
Well here is what happened and why I believe (but don’t know for sure) that the head is cracked. Wednesday morning I was driving from Tucson to Yuma but never made it. I was driving 85 MPH (the RC was running really good) on I-8 approximately 15-20 miles from Gila Bend, all of a sudden; my RC lost power, started to knock, and started to heat up. Just up the road there was an exit and what looked to be a gas station on the left. With the engine running as I pulled over and popped the hood I didn’t see anything suspicious. The oil was clean and the engine had cooled sitting there running. I wiggled the distributor and I was border-line being loose. With that bit information I thought that the distributor had come loose giving me too much advance and that’s what caused the overheating. I would only start to knock at higher RPMs. So now I am doing 50MPH in I-8 and make it to the Napa. I purchase a ratchet, extension, and a socket because that morning I took out the too box thinking I wouldn’t need it. I retarded the timing and had a rough memory of where the vac advance should point. That didn’t fix it. So I would make an adjustment then drive up and down the main drag of good old Gila Bend. By now I have the Napa parking lot as my as my home base. I figured the vacuum advance and/or the distributor went bad. I have AAA Plus which gives you 100 mile of free towing. I knew I was over the 100 mile limit so I start back to Casa Grand at 45 MPH! Good thing there is not a lot of traffic on that part of the highway. I finally get into Eloy, the whole time my RC was running about 210 degrees. I exit at the Flying J truck stop, and right there a GIGANTIC steam cloud shoots out of the tail pipe. I made it off the side of the road right across the street from the Flying J. I jumped out of the RC and put my hand over the white cloud and could feel the wetness and knew it was steam. I popped the hood and could hear water and steam rushing out of the passenger side exhaust manifold. I pulled the dipstick and the oil looked very clean, no evidence of water. I haven’t drained it to verify 100 %.
Sorry for the long story I just needed to vent about my broke RC and about being poor.
Streak-O-Lean
Well here is what happened and why I believe (but don’t know for sure) that the head is cracked. Wednesday morning I was driving from Tucson to Yuma but never made it. I was driving 85 MPH (the RC was running really good) on I-8 approximately 15-20 miles from Gila Bend, all of a sudden; my RC lost power, started to knock, and started to heat up. Just up the road there was an exit and what looked to be a gas station on the left. With the engine running as I pulled over and popped the hood I didn’t see anything suspicious. The oil was clean and the engine had cooled sitting there running. I wiggled the distributor and I was border-line being loose. With that bit information I thought that the distributor had come loose giving me too much advance and that’s what caused the overheating. I would only start to knock at higher RPMs. So now I am doing 50MPH in I-8 and make it to the Napa. I purchase a ratchet, extension, and a socket because that morning I took out the too box thinking I wouldn’t need it. I retarded the timing and had a rough memory of where the vac advance should point. That didn’t fix it. So I would make an adjustment then drive up and down the main drag of good old Gila Bend. By now I have the Napa parking lot as my as my home base. I figured the vacuum advance and/or the distributor went bad. I have AAA Plus which gives you 100 mile of free towing. I knew I was over the 100 mile limit so I start back to Casa Grand at 45 MPH! Good thing there is not a lot of traffic on that part of the highway. I finally get into Eloy, the whole time my RC was running about 210 degrees. I exit at the Flying J truck stop, and right there a GIGANTIC steam cloud shoots out of the tail pipe. I made it off the side of the road right across the street from the Flying J. I jumped out of the RC and put my hand over the white cloud and could feel the wetness and knew it was steam. I popped the hood and could hear water and steam rushing out of the passenger side exhaust manifold. I pulled the dipstick and the oil looked very clean, no evidence of water. I haven’t drained it to verify 100 %.
Sorry for the long story I just needed to vent about my broke RC and about being poor.
Streak-O-Lean
