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Brian Gaarder
Dodge Dakota
6/19/2001
11:36:32
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I have a Dakota 5.2L.
I was driving today and all of a sudden the truck started driving like crap and white smoke is coming out of the tail pipe!!!! Is the head gasket blown?? or could it be something else??
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BMac
Dodge Dakota
6/19/2001
11:54:35
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OH NO, white smoke is steam, that would mean your head gasket is likely gone. Check your oil for white gunk/crap, if it has that, that's what it is, water in the oil.
Sorry Dude, no good news here:(
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Brian Gaarder
Dodge Dakota
6/19/2001
11:58:42
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I looked for water in the oil... i dont see anything ....could there be something else blown?
Is there somewhere else water is getting in the cylinders??
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Brian Gaarder
Dodge Dakota
6/19/2001
13:32:55
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Here is some strang crap. I took the valve covers off. I foundon the right side 3 Rockers arms broken!! The bolts snaped off at the head. The left side is fine. I have a question about the lifters . I have a 5.2 Magnum with the hydrolic lifters. I know that they have internal parts that move and adjust the rocker arms. On the side that the arms are broken the "plunger" in the lifter is at the top while on the other side its half way down inside the lifter. Is this what caused my problem?? How do i fix it?
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Art
Dodge Dakota
6/19/2001
14:46:57
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What were you doing when this happened?you can water from head gasket ,head crack, block crack, the lifters just have no load on them cause the rockers are broken thats why plungers are up,fix the rockers and do a leak down test to see where the prob is
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Brian Gaarder
Dodge Dakota
6/19/2001
15:20:11
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The plungers are all the way up even when the arms were on. a couple of the arms were not broken off. What could be causeing this? Should i take them apart and clean them out?
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Art
Dodge Dakota
6/19/2001
16:53:02
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were not talkin the same thing the lifters pump up when car starts the lifters ride on the cam lobes your prob jus seein the lifters on closed position,you still never answered what u were doing driving wise,fix whats broken that u can see an try it,
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Brian Gaarder
Dodge Dakota
6/19/2001
16:59:56
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YOU dont seem to understand. The lifter are HOLDING preasure when the engine is hot thus creating too much presure on the arms. I need to know why the dont release the preasure when HOT
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redbone
Dodge Dakota
6/19/2001
20:18:17
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hey they are supposed to hold pressure for awhgile unless there antipump lifters or your seeing the lifter plunger bottomed out because they wont hold pressure
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Brian Gaarder
Dodge Dakota
6/19/2001
21:34:45
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Can they hold too much pressure and cause the bolts that hold the rocker arms on to break ? I had 1 that was totaly broken off. 2 others were holding on by 2 threads. And under all of them the washers were broken in pieces. .
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durtydog
Dodge Dakota
6/19/2001
22:04:11
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was there any top end work done before this?
sounds like there is something broken inside the lifters.if there is no give in the lifters then something will break,bent push rods broken rocker arms ect.can you tell if any of the lifters came apart? was any of the push rods bent?
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Brian Gaarder
Dodge Dakota
6/19/2001
22:46:12
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the pushrods look ok . and for topend work... all i had done were the valves. its strange that all 8 on the right side are like this and all 8 on the left are ok....
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Mar
Dodge Dakota
6/19/2001
23:21:16
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How long did you drive it after the problem started.
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Mar
Dodge Dakota
6/19/2001
23:23:37
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Also is there a sweet smell when it idles at the tail pipe. If it is i think you have a head gasket problem. also i think you had a sticking valve or somthing and the piston smashed into it damaging the head causing the leak. what were the RPMs when this happened.
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Art
Dodge Dakota
6/20/2001
02:41:59
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How far did you drive this after puttin the heads back on?did it idle right?heads get milled? is it stock rockers?u first said 3 broken rockers now 8?did you tourqe properly?
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kent10
Dodge Dakota
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1/09/2003
23:50:41
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Sounds like you may have a broken piston.
That's what happened to mine.
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