the head casket could be blown out between 4 & 6?

 

If that occurred wouldn't i get more issues? i really don't want to go the route of a head gasket. I don't have any smoke out the tailpipe and i have no loss in pressure when pressure testing at the reservoir. how can i check for this?

 

I am going to inspect my ECM tonight to make sure nothing fishy is going on there as well

 

i'd also like to point out that the previous Owner used regular grade gasoline and the oil i changed was very thin. this could be due to the age of the oil, but my guess is that he used the cheapest oil he could find.

 

Alright... i decided to do the head job myself! I've ordered all the parts and pieces including new valves and springs. it took about 6 total hours to remove the heads (Using the RAVE). I sent them out to be resurfaced and cleaned, now i'm just waiting to reassemble. in the mean time i'll clean the engine while i've got it apart.

I did indeed have a blown head gasket between cylinders 4 & 6. It looked like i was about to have a blowout between 5 & 7 as well. i had what looked to be four failing exhaust valves and quite a bit of carbon build up in the engine. So definitely glad i'm doing this now than later.

I'll let everyone know the outcome when i reassemble the engine.

 

make sure they dont take too much of the heads, they have very little to work with