Hello, I'm doing a head gasket job in my 2004 base model crossfire. It's got a little over 200k and as far as I can tell the head gasket has gone out without causing any further damage. I've looked all over the internet and haven't seen anyone else do this job, and I've been wondering if anyone else on this forum has. If you have I'd like to know, as I have some questions. Also, I know that everyone says it's cheaper to just throw a lower mileage used engine in rather than replace the head gasket. But I can't afford to buy an engine and engine hoists, I can afford the gaskets and specialty tools needed for the job.

 

1. Here's a 2 part video that may help, part 2 is just below part 1
also read this being you have a high mileage engine
https://www.benzworld.org/threads/m1...first.3082017/

 

I believe I've seen that video in doing research. My oil and coolant didn't mix. I has low compression and noticed my coolant kept getting low. I'd start the car for like 5 minutes, shut it off and open the coolant bottle. Which would start hissing from having built up pressure. So I bought a combustion leak tester and found out I had compression leaking into my cooling system.

 

The engine hasn't over heated. so as far as I can tell the gasket has just given out because of its old age.

 

Just thought to make you aware, might be a easy fix with having the engine apart and save you a problem down the road .

 

Thank you, I'll definitely make sure to check that out once I've got everything apart. Maybe it would be good preventative maintenance to replace that seal when I'm in there

 

Hello, it's been a while since I've updated this thread. I've pulled the heads and have been waiting for parts to put it back together, I have ran into one issue that has been making me kind of worry. When I got to pulling the cams off the I used the locating/locking tool from needs wings, I was however only able to get one of the locking plates to sit in the groove on the cam. In hind sight I should have stopped and done more reading before continuing, but I was in a rush and pushed through. I removed the cams with only one plate In place. However I do know that the engine is in time, I just want to know if this will cause any issues later when everything goes back together.