Ed Ciessau Posted July 4, 2017 Report Share Posted July 4, 2017 I have a 13 journey, 124,000 miles and the other day, message on dash said Oil Hot, Speed may be Limited. Wife pulled over and called for help. Upon checking, found water level low, added water and tried to start. When I hit the started, most of the water came back out at me. And it wouldn't start. So I let it cool off for hours and refilled water, put cap back on and it started and ran fine. But as soon as I started driving, temp started going up, got to about 240 before finally making it back home. Next day I figured it was a thermostat issue, so pulled both out and replaced. Changed oil as well and refilled with coolant. Hit starter and she fired right up. Watched temp and never got about 148. Thought all was good. Checked water level and put cap on radiator. After a few minutes with the cap on, it started running rough, and i had to keep giving it gas. Then it died. No restart, it was very labored in trying. Thats when it hit me. I pulled the coil packs, and plugs, and EVERYONE is WET! WHAT THE HECK!! What could this be? I find it very unusual that every cylinder is wet at the same time. No water in oil, or white smoke before this. HELP!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Ciessau Posted July 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2017 Anyone ever come across all 4 cylinders being wet and it being a head gasket?? I am stumped on this......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkeaton Posted July 5, 2017 Report Share Posted July 5, 2017 Wet with what? 2late4u 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larryl Posted July 5, 2017 Report Share Posted July 5, 2017 Sounds to me like this is not the first time the needle has gone to the red zone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Ciessau Posted July 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2017 water. My question is does the intake have water running thru it? Trying to figure out how all 4 got water. It would make more sense that the intake does infact have water running thru it. Also, hooked to code reader and one of the codes was High Intake Temperature. No other code except for high oil temp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankster Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 The intake manifold doesn't have any coolant running through it. Pick up a test kit to check for exhaust gas in the coolant, and a compression test. Hank jkeaton 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2late4u Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 On 7/4/2017 at 9:11 AM, Ed Ciessau said: I have a 13 journey, 124,000 miles and the other day, message on dash said Oil Hot, Speed may be Limited. Wife pulled over and called for help. Upon checking, found water level low, added water and tried to start. When I hit the started, most of the water came back out at me. And it wouldn't start. So I let it cool off for hours and refilled water, put cap back on and it started and ran fine. But as soon as I started driving, temp started going up, got to about 240 before finally making it back home. Next day I figured it was a thermostat issue, so pulled both out and replaced. Changed oil as well and refilled with coolant. Hit starter and she fired right up. Watched temp and never got about 148. Thought all was good. Checked water level and put cap on radiator. After a few minutes with the cap on, it started running rough, and i had to keep giving it gas. Then it died. No restart, it was very labored in trying. Thats when it hit me. I pulled the coil packs, and plugs, and EVERYONE is WET! WHAT THE HECK!! What could this be? I find it very unusual that every cylinder is wet at the same time. No water in oil, or white smoke before this. HELP!!! after putting in a new thermostat and it never got above 148 something is wrong as it should have got up to about 185 -200.... OhareFred and jkeaton 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltdjourney Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 leave rad cap off and let it run and see if it over flows out top of rad . if it dose it's head gasket compression leaking into coolant when it gets hot . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eduardo831 Posted July 9, 2017 Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 Sounds like your head gasket blew unfortunately, do a compression test or get one done to be sure. After decide whether it's worth you doing the job yourself or paying someone to do it. jkeaton and 2late4u 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Ciessau Posted July 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2017 pulled the head and all the cylinders had coolant in them. Took head to machine shop, it was warped so had it decked and now going to put back together. My guess gasket failure is the cause. So after putting back together, think its time to get rid of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eduardo831 Posted July 15, 2017 Report Share Posted July 15, 2017 Yeah that's unfortunate, but don't blame you for wanting to sell it after all this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bramfrank Posted July 15, 2017 Report Share Posted July 15, 2017 15 minutes ago, Eduardo831 said: Yeah that's unfortunate, but don't blame you for wanting to sell it after all this. Why? He has a brand new gasket and his head's been planed. Should be good for another however many miles. Of course, if one is looking for an excuse to replace a vehicle . . . . Eduardo831 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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