Hi,
Please help if you can. It isn't big ends though! Hope not Head Gasket either
Engine Overheated, now water jet/leak coming from rear of engine
I've owned my red stage 2 s13 since 2004 and this has happened before once - when it was fixed by burping the radiator and fitting a new rad cap. I tried that this time and it hadn't fixed it - any ideas? things to note:
- Oil / Filter (Fuchs 10>50 oil / Nissan filter) was changed last month / 250 miles ago by local garage - could they have overfilled it? Could that contribute to this issue at all?
- The overheating happened during 1st high speed (ish) run since oil /filter change, as soon as I saw the temp gauge in the red I stopped the car, waited for it to cool then poodled home with hot fan on full blast. But it blew cold.
- Its grey smoke and deffo from rear of engine, smoke can also be seen inside car by ashtray when on the move and of course out the back.
- The engine just seems overpressurised and I noticed that the dipstick was not flush in its seating, being about 1 cm up from where it should be. Hadn't checked that since I let garage change the oil as I was too busy with work that day.
I guess the overheating could have damaged the seal/gasket at back of engine?
As a new Dad (son is 9 weeks old) I'm under pressure to get a family car and this problem has the "interested parties" circling around me like sharks smelling blood to see if I will finally sell the S13! Don't want to sell but this could be the end if its not a reasonably easy / inexpensive fix.
I should be able to limp the car down to the next Essex meet at HWH if anyone's up for a look at it. I live about 10mins from HWH.
Cheers in advance
Trev
(Revver)