Bad PCV>Oil leak>Overheating>Blown head gasket seems reasonable to me. It seems all the more likely as I did have pretty much every symptom listed.
I didn't personally bolden the text in my previous message btw, it just got copy-pasted that way.

 

Great to see you’re just as patient as ever with people trying to learn.

 

go for it

 

he’s not willing to learn…not much different than you.

 

Re-read what I posted above.

I’m trying to be helpful so don’t be offended by this.

Note that you are the only one who thinks this is reasonable; no one else with knowledge of engine operation thinks it is.

 

If you split your symptoms and results up, then it makes a little more sense.

1. Bad PCV -> Oil leak
2. Overheating -> Blown head gasket

 

Fair enough. I am not one to take offense. Driving around with a dead oil lamp and no oil in the engine seems like an obvious cause of overheating though.
I'll be forced to learn as the project goes on. Would be nice to have the car back in driving condition before the first snow but that's likely rather ambitious given my schedule.

 

Correct. I haven’t learned anything from you either.

 

The pressure in the crankcase is not the same as the pressure in the cylinders. This is a repetition for many of us but I am just differentiating for the o.p. I would guess that the head gasket failed not from excessive pressure (more than originally designed) but from plain old corrosion. At any rate noboby will know for usre until the heads are removed and the gaskets inspected and even then it is a MAW. What difference does it make at that point just replace them.

It isn't nessecarry to insult other members. It doesn't elevate you in anybody elses opinion of you nor does it show your superiority in any way, it only reveals your lack of respect for others. Please refrain.

 

The crankcase is vented to the atmosphere via the other valve cover that is connected to a breather filter that pulls in fresh air near the air cleaner. A plugged PCV valve can only prevent crankcase vapors from being recirculated by being sucked into the intake under the carb. That's how a PCV system works. Any crankcase pressure developed by piston ring blow-by and blocked by the plugged PCV valve will back-flow out of the breather to atmosphere, thus, no significant pressure to even blow out even valve cover gaskets (which is probably what that google article you stumbled across really meant to say).

Not everything found by google is factual or applies to our cars.

 

Overheating isn't the main concern, the crankshaft and rod bearings will be destroyed with no oil lubrication. That would likely result in the engine seizing, not blowing a head gasket.

 

Alright, thanks guys! I'll be updating the thread once I've made some headway with the engine.
Not a clue what I'll do with the transmission. Perhaps with some luck it'll work with a cleanup and a proper oil-fill. Then again this could become an excuse to buy that fancy 2004R.

 

I can tell that.

 

Actually, yes I have learned something from you, how to belittle people with no discrimination.
Go get help, please.

 

you got that attitude from me? 😂

I’ve noticed you’ve stopped belittling people on here about not using O2 set ups when tuning since your phony intake test .

not a peep from you since you failed to follow your golden rule….no more freaking out and belittling.

 

Leaving aside the vitriol, if the PCV is plugged, it will pressurize the crankcase and blow gaskets, or, more likely, pop the pcv valve out, but those gaskets are the intake and oil pan gaskets. Maybe timing cover.

The head gasket is an interface between the combustion chamber, cooling jackets, and external, and does not come into contact with the crank case. There's a fundamental lack of engine knowledge for the OP here. Please read a book on IC engines.

 

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Sure whatever.
But I’ve never said “I guess you just don’t want to learn” like you have, more than once.

You just don’t get it. Get help, please.
Back to the op’s question….

 

What I get is you stopped belittling anyone for not using an O2 to tune with..it’s refreshing.

I see you’re still doing it on Facebook though.

instead of worrying yourself sick about me..why not give this guy a quick lesson on the basics of internal combustion engines and what the PCV does and what it can’t hurt? see if you can do better than everyone else, who aren’t having any luck.

 

Why beat a dead horse. Move on.

 

move on to what Karen?

 

From giving yet another explanation of how a PCV works. It’s already been explained, more than once.
Thank you.