Blown Headgasket on my 350z! (early signs)
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- Overheated my car and blew the headgasket(s) on my 2005 nissan 350z. The VQ35DE engines are notorious for blowing headgaskets so it is important to prevent overheating with this vehicle
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the best test to do is a combustion block test with the blue fluid to see if it turns yellow when interacting with exhaust fumes in your radiator. But yea if you have the white smoke thats a tell tel sign. You should have also pulled your dipstick to verify that you had coolant mixed with your oil.
H & H, what are the spec's for your varrstoen es2 rims! Did your roll the fenders?
look at your terminal Jesus Christ that battery acid LMFAO
whater on the pipe is juuuuuuussst fine ;)
Well it’s typical for 350z and g35 to have more water vapor when they weren’t started for a while
This must be true then I have not started my Z in 7 weeks. I thought I had an blown head gasket when it first started up the car has 91 000 miles on it.
@@Ben_Z33 what did it turn out to be
@@alexbulbarela1234 blown head gasket
Bro air in the system doesn’t necessarily mean you have a blown head gasket! These cooling systems are known to get air in the system you have to bleed the air with the bleeder valve to burp all the air or your car will overheat and you will blow a head gasket !!!
the process is a pain in the ass
I tried to bleed it... but all the fluid comes out the block what should I do
🤤🤤 that welded diff sound
oof look at that battery terminal lol
My 350z makes a weird noise from the motor idk what’s wrong with it
Water in the exhaust can also be condensation not always head gasket I got a little water in mine and my head gasket was just changed
Yeah
Bro I’m having the same problem on my 350z but I think my anti freeze tank got a leak
Bro am in Washington state lynnwood id love to link up with you and ask few questions about my Z350 2006
I installed new gasket and when I completed the work then turn engine on it makes noise …. Could help please
I have the same symptoms as you! My issue on my 2010 FX35 is that when the coolant goes into the expansion tank, it does not get sucked back into the rad when it cools.... i often have to siphon back to rad once the engine is cold. I tried 4 brand new rad caps, new rad, new thermostat, hoses, coolant temp sensor, new metal heater valve etc.... bled and burped the system and have been having this issue since last summer. Whats wild is that i dont have any symptoms, except some light white smoke.... doesn't seem like I'm losing coolant, just need to keep siphoning from expansion tank to rad, if i don't do this, the car will overheat. If i drive more than 50 miles all the coolant ends up in the expansion tank, and theres a lot of gurgling behind steering wheel. I'm getting my head gasket replaced next week along with timing chain and water water pumps... 3500.00 for the job. I was thinking just doing the waterpump, but, i dont want to risk having the same exact issue and having to come out of pocket again.
What did it end up being?
@@tcblackg35 head gasket. got that fixed along with timing chain and water pump, galley gaskets, seals and all that stuff! Cost me 4200.00 but, the other option was to get rid of this car and purchase a newer one which would be alot more expensive than 4K. As long as i get an additional 2+ years with my car after this i'm happy. Now i need to change my downstream 02 sensors... and figure out what a rattle noise is when i put the car in drive, it's coming from where the cats are but i dont think i have bad cats when i hit them theres no rattle. I think its a rusted old bracket thats rattling but i dont have a lift to check.
I just bought a manual transmission beater car, I had to teach myself how to drive a stick when I bought it... last night I was being dumb and I redlined it and I saw a bunch of smoke coming out of it, thought I just burned the clutch though. I just took it for a short drive and inspected the exhaust when it was running and there wasn’t any vapor coming out of the exhaust (it’s like 48 degrees rn so I think it would show) do you think I just burned the clutch?
Yeah or it just blew black smoke cuz it probably runs richer at redline which is expected not that big of a deal if it still runs good then it’s fine
Did you ever get this issue fixed?
I was told when water drips from your tail pipes your car is running good .
Me to
Cap. My civic had water dripping out of the tail pipe & I still developed a head gasket.
It all came from not changing a dripping radiator on time.
My coolant reservoir goes empty in a week! No overheating, but smoke but I don't know if it's because it's cold or could it be a head gasket?
The smoking is somewhat normal, I would keep an eye out on any coolant leaks. If not then bad headgaskets could be a cause of the coolant lost
When you're not getting power I know why... holy corrosion.
many kids destroy 350z and g35 cause they have no clue how ,to drive or do proper maintenece they watch nto much fast and furious
c bass lmao got mine when I was 17. It was bad and I rebuilt it. Just do oil changes and coolant flush. Air filter, plugs and good gas. Legit like $200 in maintenance
Yep. Honda kid got hold of mine before I bought it. So the money that was going towards go fast and performance is going to go toward fixing all their bullshit.
They cut the springs and cambered the back tires.
If you’re a ricer or “Stance boi”, rice and stance an $800 Honda, not a 350Z
I got mine as a first car at 18 I’m 19 now and just changed the water pump and I check everything weekly not all kids beat the shit out of there cars
@@snixn3155 just got mine today from an 18 yr old and the engine blew 6 hrs after easy driving in the highway
@A rod 😂😂
Mine is overheating so I thought it needed a coolant bleed. All the coolant drips off the block area and not the radiator? Your thoughts? I couldn't even over fill the radiator and funnel... it all drips out
Is it near the water pump ?
@@natefrm860 I'm starting to think so yeah might be the pump
Have you looked into blue devil or steel seal to possibly save you time and money.
What is that?
Ain’t hear it when you pull back up
When I TRY to start my car Thick white smoke blows out everywhere... 😢
THAT'S a blown head gasket!
What if I get no white smoke and no leaks anywhere? I changed the thermostat to see if it was that but no it still over heats after 15 minutes I have no leaks anywhere. the coolant just starts to over flow out of the reservoir. Any thoughts on what it could be...
did you find anything out?
drew rams found out I had a cracked head. I’m guessing all the signs I thought when you blew a head was milky oil or white smoke..my z didn’t do any of those signs but I took the car finally to a shop after stoping to fix the problem myself and they did a test on it and I was told I had a cracked head so now it’s just sitting but I just bought a genesis a couple days ago kinda gave up on the z for now after putting 2K worth of engine parts and ended up getting a cracked head so as of now I took a break on it...
@@Dealzu Are you talking about a cracked cylinder head or head gasket???
@@alexmarquez348 head gasket but they said the whole engine was fucked already so they wanted to charge me 3500$ for a new engine and they’ll even install it at that time I spent all my money on trying to fix the over heading problem so I kinda went broke from buying parts and buying hella coolant lol
@@Dealzu damn i’m in the same boat right now bro. my g35 will drive fine for 20 minutes then it’ll start overheating. i already bled the car many times and it keeps overheating
White smoke from head gasket it’s blown
DISTILLED WATER!!!! YOU NEED DISTILLED WATER YOU CANT HAVE MINERALS IN THERE!!!
They're notorious for blown headgaskets? Maybe if too much hp or doing stupid stuff. Stock you should be fine, 1st if heard of this
When I blew mine it made a ticking sound around 1500 rpm, got it all fixed and now we good
My 350s ticking low rpm with white smoke🥲 just a matter of time now
@@gingernewb6315 Mine also had a lot of excess water from exhaust too. Damn good luck man I hope it all works out fine 👍
Mine ticks as well do you guys know why ?
@@Dylan-ct4hg what rpm does it tick?
@@Resi765 usually above 1500 but I have a 99 lexus GS 300
I hear what sounds like loose change when you drove off. Are your valves messed up also?
Z Car i think that was just the camera mic.
I’m leaking oil around my engine bay and at first I thought I blown my head gasket but I don’t have that water smoke like your nor the bubbles so I’m assuming I just need a new valve cover gasket? If I sound like I don’t know what I’m talking about it’s because I’m completely new into the car scene and I’m learning as I go and I’m so confused lmao
I had a bad oil cap on my z (and the little rubber thing around it) after adding oil it would leak down and eventually get all over the place...
King of repeat holy fuck
Sooo I smell oil burning and i see oil around the left engine head.... is a blown gasket? I’m not overheating and not losing coolant so I’m really confused
Ben Z33 chances are valve cover gaskets! Headgaskets usually result with overheating
H&H Racing Development you are definitely right. Should I keep driving it? Or just keep it parked?
Ben Z33 depending on how bad it is you may be able to drive it for a little bit but I would recommend changing them. Common problems for the vq and pain to do but worth it
Just make sure to keep checking your oil levels. Don't know if you've fixed this issue yet or not? But it's a really easy job to do. I went ahead and got a new set of valve covers w/ gaskets and new hardware. I painted them an aluminum silver gloss color. Make sure to use a small film of RTV only on the front of the engine on the gasket. You don't need to RTV the whole thing. Just up front and maybe on the corners.
While I had everything apart I went ahead and installed a plenum spacer. I cleaned the inside really good, the upper and lower intakes as well. I also painted my plenum as well. I paid $55 on ebay for the valve covers, gaskets & hardware. I also went ahead and got 6 new laser platinum spark plugs for $24 on ebay. They usually go for $6 or so a pop. Ordered 6 new coil packs for $30 something on ebay as well. Car runs so much better now. Before the plenum would get so hot it'd burn me. Now I can drive 4 hrs straight and whenever I touch it, it's barely warm. Anyways the valve covers are an easy fix.
@@nowimhigh yep it was the valve cover gaskets I got them done and changed sparks while everything was apart but since then I’ve sold my Z :( I still miss it to this day but I’ve gotten a faster car and my 350z was automatic partly the reason I sold it but my new car is manual and way faster
Hey man
Any details on your exhaust? Perhaps past set-ups or recommendations. Thanks!
Frugal Mang in the video I had test pipes and a borla true dual, I’m actually trying to get a single exit instead because I like the sound of them more.
@@hhracingdevelopment6792 Hey man cheers for the reply. Already sounds great! But I agree, single exit is the way to go. I'm looking at the Tomei or Agency from the states. Unfortunately the EPA laws where I am mean risk of fines over 90db, so I really need to research.
This dude is wrong... His car wasn't overheating, no billowing white smoke, nothing...
My 2006 nissan 350z just started having overheating issues and now literally now, is sputtering when accelerating
I need help!!!
Blown motor buddy
@@badquality4069 well it was the radiator but wondering if the head gasket is going?
@@danamckee5341 u probably got a dirty maf
@@badquality4069 what's a Maf?
@@danamckee5341 mass air flow sensor
This video posted 2 years ago but the 350z is 190k+ miles? I got my 06 350z DE has 130k miles on it, know why the engine smokes after too much high revving?
did you ever find out the problem ?
i replaced the entire radiator a few days ago bc there was a MASSIVE crack in it. After i replaced it it worked just fine but today it started to overheat AND the coolant tank started to bubble. I’m new to cars so i’m not sure what the issue is at all.
Warbling Titan22 did you bleed the coolant after system after you installed a new radiator?
did you ever figure out why it was bubbling?
@@alexmarquez348 i didn’t. i took it to a mechanic and they couldn’t tell me what was wrong either so i just sold the car.
@@tristonsparks7557 typical not never finding out wtf is wrong w a car just sell it make it someone elses problem and buy another car with issues that you have no idea wth you're doing just get in and drive it and hope for the best🙄🤦♂️, jeeze Im so glad I know how to work on cars 🤔
sorry but you wrong most off the time when you have a head gasket blow you have a miss fire and is typical on all 350z and infiniti g35 to see water on the muffler and thats is becase the catalisty comberter that is his job change the gasets to water
the miss fire could also be just because of a valve cover head gasket which is what i got p0300
@@r6ast so that code is the valve cover gasket? Because I got the same code and I got smoke coming out of my exhaust
@@chrisledesma850same exact thing I got that code with white smoke coming out when I rev the car did you ever fix it
@@Me.J717 yea turned out I had oil leaking into my spark plugs, changed the gasket and code and smoke went away
My g35 has no white smoke coming out but I did notice antifreeze leaking form my radiator cap... do you think its head gasket? Does your temp guage go up to hot?
Herman Moran it could be just your radiator cap that needs to be replaced. Yes the the gauge went up to hot multiple times for long periods of time. I was far away and had to keep driving it while it was overheating it which caused it be blow the headgaskets. I also changed the thermostat too before I took the whole thing apart
@@hhracingdevelopment6792 thankyou man!
My head gasket blew rip
Just put in a new radiator…now everytime I break smoke pours out of my passanger right of engine bay..car also overheated
What’s this mean
Or maybe a cracked block.
Young kids are funny.
How much u want for the wheels?
Shut the fuck up
Nissan is shit anyway these days, not good like back in the day, there's no reason for that late model of a car to have a blown head gasket if it hasn't been overheated.
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