blown head gasket new issue

[RavoHimself]

blew a head gasket the other day. so much smoke i couldnt see through it. tore it down to the block in 2.5 hours. rebuilt with all new gaskets in another 4. now when i first start it up (most of the time) it has an awful skip. i figured it was a bad plug from trying to burn coolant but after putting new plugs in it seems a little worse. here's the weird part.

once i start driving, like 30 seconds, it clears up and will run fine untill you shut it down. if you restart right away it skips a little but not bad. if you wait a few minutes its bad again.

what do you think is wrong? bad injector? bad new plug?

 

[wildbill23c]

Could be a bad injector, but if you blew a head gasket, did you change the oil/filter after you replaced the gaskets? If not you still have oil mixed with coolant which is still circulating through the engine which could be causing a problem. Also check all of your wire connections, make sure your plugs/wires are all installed properly and tight.

 

[RavoHimself]

Changed the oil and filter. Plugs are tight with the correct wire

 

[Dune Runner]

Could just be a bad wire. How old are they. Moving them around sometimes will cause an old plug wire to fail.

 

[RavoHimself]

Starter froze after I drove it last too.....

I think Imay have figured it out. Won't know untill tonight. For one Itook all the plugs out and one was just black so I'm assuming I had a bad plug to begin with. And second I looked in the book again. It turns out I did have the wires on the left bank messed up too. Once I get the new starter in and plugs all set up I'm hoping it runs fine

 

[RavoHimself]

Pretty sure she's fixed. Replaced the bad plug and starter. Triple checked the wires this time. Still ran a bit rough so we tightened/squeezed the plug wires a bit and closed the spark gap a bit and she runs as good as new. Let's hope it stays that way