Need advice with VT blown Motor

[Fairdinkemgsd]

Does it sound like this?

That's my VX when I blew it up. There was also a pretty attractive fountain jetting out of the radiator.

OMG Yes, I had the same thing with the water spraying out of the radiator, which was a milky colour.
I have attached a pic of the colour of the oil now. Water is the same.

 

[RiffRaffMama]

OMG Yes, I had the same thing with the water spraying out of the radiator, which was a milky colour.
I have attached a pic of the colour of the oil now. Water is the same.

My coolant looked like that long before the final act, so I knew there was something very wrong, but this car had been so bloody good to me over the years that I tried not to think about it and kept pushing her. The way I see it, at this point in time you have nothing to lose by opening it up and seeing exactly what's wrong before splashing out $500 on an engine. Could just be $100 worth of gaskets that it needs.

 

[vc commodore]

OMG Yes, I had the same thing with the water spraying out of the radiator, which was a milky colour.
I have attached a pic of the colour of the oil now. Water is the same.

The LIM gasket quite often lets go creating this milky concoction in the radiator and sump....

It is also commonly misdiagnoised as a stuffed head/gasket.

Advise....Get a mechanic that knows his stuff to diagnosie it before throwing millions of dollars at it trying to fix it if you don't know yourself.

Finally do a forum search on LIM gasket....You will find a heap of info on here about the misdiagnosis with people thinking it is a head/gasket but turns out to be a LIM gasket

 

[Lex]

Does it sound like this?

That's my VX when I blew it up. There was also a pretty attractive fountain jetting out of the radiator.

That didn't sound like my vt, when the motor went. It sounded like there was a rattle coming from the exhaust manifold, drivers side of the engine.

When we got it back to Melb. found the engine was seized.

It was locked up at the Ford dealer ship at Coonabaraban for nearly 3 weeks. While waiting to ship it back to Melb.

The dealership wanted $3K tjust supply & fit a motor. No guarantees on it, & could take more than a week by the time sourced one, & had it fitted.
Coonabarabran is nearly 1K km from Melbourne, it's not like it was 200km from home. Motel room was $115.00 per night. Don't no about pub or caravan rates. This could have cost me easily $4 or 5K.

The mock up cars' engine (vt exe. wagon, same as my car)sounded a bit like yours.
Could never get that to run again. Had to eventually replace the engine with a running engine to finish mocking up my 6L50 transmission.

 

[Fairdinkemgsd]

Thank you for your advice I really appreciate it. I'll get another mechanic to look into this before I spend unnecessary money.