hi just registered

[bronco2dude]

Hey y'all im new here I read the forums about the 2.9 and liked what I saw, just bought an 86 bronco 2 drove it for 4 days and has what I believe to be a blown head gasket. Thought id get some advice for puttin her back together.
Thx in advance for help.
Travis

 

[B2Guy]

welcome to trs. youll find everything youll ever need to know about your bronco here. check out the tech library it'll fill you full of tons of info! Good luck fixin your bronco.

 

[bronco2dude]

Thx ya I have lots of questions

 

[B2Guy]

use the search tool. im sure its been talked about before on here. post up a picture of the bronco when you can. we love to see what everyones working on.

 

[bronco2dude]

Ok ill make a thread on the tech forum, I have pic I just put on on for my profile pic

 

[IRKillroy]

also, keep in mind that some of those searched threads are years old... If you have questions then open a new thread and reference the old thread you have questions about. Makes it easier to reference and if your questions are something someone later on is looking for it's not something 100 pages deep in a different topic.

Welcome to TRS and hope you get your truck fixed.

by-the-way, what makes you think it's a blown head gasket? it wouldn't be a ticking sound would it?

 

[bronco2dude]

Thx, and yes there was a ticking noise, like a lifter, thin oil I assumed, I checked the dipstick there was like a foot of fluid and it smelled like anyfreeze. There was also coolant coming out of the overflow. And before this I had just got the timing dailed in and new plugs. Then this happened so I took her apart.

 

[Daven]

Welcome to the site

You will deffinately find any info you need for ur truck. This site is awesome lol. Also, trying to decribe problems ur having is very hard to decribe correctly, and even harder for others to know from it what u mean. So taking pictures or a video helps tons when asking a question about what ur trucks doing. Idk much about uploading here, but there are certain sizes or formats i think that they need to be. So if u cannot get it to upload here you could try something like photobucket for pics or youtube for vids. I'm sure u know all of this already lol But i figured incase u didnt it could help a great deal

Good luck with ur truck

 

[IRKillroy]

There are upgrades to your heads. Sounds like they cracked, not your head gaskets.

World products make a replacement, unless they stopped.

Your lifters would need to be replaced/upgraded to stop the ticking as that and your rockers are to blame. You can convert the rockers to free floating with some aluminum pipe with an ID the same as the OD of the rocker arm rod. Sven Pruitt a long time ago had a book that detailed the widths you'd need to cut it, but the book is out of production and all you really need to do is measure it before you remove the springs... I decided not to do it when I had mine apart 'cause I was lazy. I wish I did it.

 

[RangerDanger]

send those heads to be magnafluxed (if you dont see the cracks yourself)!! they are probably cracked!.

 

[4.0B2]

welcome to trs.. you'll love it here. go ahead and sign up for a photobucket.
and if you want the right fix, swap out the 2.9 for the 4.0! lol..j/k. but remember that is an option if you have the time/money. spend several hours just searching around. you'll find so MUCH good info. tech library. the build threads are some of my favorites! 10-40 or more pages of other people's builds. you can learn A LOT.. and get a lot of good ideas.

 

[Mark_88]

Welcome to TRS~!

Yes, the search engine is your friend...I've found things that were posted long ago that are still quite useful...and if there isn't a tech bulletin on what you are doing (unlikely, but possible) then you may want to create your own and have your name up in lights...lol

Enjoy~

 

[bronco2dude]

Well thx for the help everone! I was really hoping that it was just a head gasket. but ill get them tested and post an update. I just got laid off that's y I was hoping not to have to spend alot.

 

[IRKillroy]

the stock heads are easy to identify. if the spring seats are round then it's probably a cracked head, if it's a squarish D shape it's a world product head and it's probably the gasket.

You can obviously tell just by taking the valve cover off. Let us know what you see.

Sorry to hear you're laid off.