blew my head gasket

[mechuccio]

Well, not too nice all this

Yesterday after I visited my parents I drove back home, just about a mile befor I came home I stopped to deliver a laptop that I repaired. 10 minutes later I start my car, drive away and within 20 meters I hear a bang, and My enine has just 1 working cilinder left
At first I thought of a backfire (happened before since I'm driving on autogas) but unfortunately that wasn't the case.
I popped the hood and I could feel a lot of hot air coming from onder the head, as well as a very strong fuel smell (I switched tot fuel when I thought it was a backfire. I couldn't check it properly (I've got 2 exams right now) I drove home poorly on one cilinder, but my little red friend brought me home! It's a bit shitty because I just 10.000 km's ago switched my timing belt. But well, this afternoon I'll start working on my engine to get the head off. And I hope that there isn't too much damage done.

[Timmo]

bummer matey! hope its a simple fix for you!!

[thanuttiscotsman]

Bugger, that really sucks, i hate it when huge failures happen. hope it fixes quickly and easily for ya.

rossco

[ed_straker]

Doesnt the engine run at hotter temperatures when running on gas?
So i hope that doesnt happen again.

[mechuccio]

Well, it seems that there's some sunny sky behind the clouds.
Yesterday evening when it happened it was already dark, and it scared the sh*t out of me when I felt all that hot air (even some hints of flames ) so immediately I turned of the engine.
After a quick call to my father I decided to drive home with it since it was less than a kilometer from home.

I couldn't check it further yesterday because I had 2 heavy exams today and had still some studying to do (even at 22:00)
Anyway, I passed the exams. Got home around 18:30 Drove my car into the garage (horrible horrible engine sounds, but running, and it started fast as usual) Then when I popped the hood with running engine I could see the sparkplug cover moving up and down agressively.

I removed it and found the 2nd sparkplug to be completely loose, and its cap busted. I haven't touched the sparkplugs since I have this car, I did replace the cables and distibution-cap. So my guess for now is that it just came loose in the last 25.000 kilometers

Anyway, my father is coming tomorrow early in the morning with a compression-tester, and then I'll find out if there really is some damage, I could see no hints what so ever of shattered steel when I looked into the shaft with a light, so perhaps this is just some sick april fools joke by my car

My hopes are up nevertheless

I'll keep you posted! thanks for your compassion!

[Timmo]

OOOH! sounds like it could be a bit of good news then! Fingers crossed for you matey!

Congrats onthe exams too btw!

[mechuccio]

Thank you and thank god

My father came by with his compression meter, and it had a VERY nice compression of 15 BAR on each cilinder and that even after taking over 300.000 kilometers and the last 150.000 on autogas

There was some damage though, we couldn't get the compression meter in the 2nd cilinder properly, but after screwing in a new sparkplug it fitted fine.

So I must say that I'm quite content with the outcome of this problem