Problem Help!!!
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Problem Help!!!
Allright im having trouble with my fourwheeler Cannondale fx400 it has all the updates. But anyways i was going down the road and right when i shifted into second gear the lid to the radiator coolant lid poped off and the coolant came out. I didn't knwo it was that uintil i stopped. But when it happend i kept riding it hard for another 300 yards just thinking it was water becasue i didn't see the cap come off. Then i slowed down and shut it off and realized it was athe coolant then. Well then i tryed starting it and the exhaust was white but it would never start but it just kept trying too. I refilled the radiator with coolant and still no luck. It feels like theres very little air coming out of the exhaust when i try to start it but it does almost start sometimes. I think its leaking coolant somewhere now too not sure though. Any ideas whats wrong with it or why it wont start and what to do??? My friend thinks it could be a blown head gasket. Any help, ideas or comments would be great. Thanks
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i don't know how much compression there should be, i'd say somewhere in the neighborhood of 150psi, maybe? you'd know if there wasn't enough though. you need to take the plug out and put a compression tester in the hole, you can get a comp. tester at the auto parts store.
don't know how much $$$ it'd take. head gaskets aren't real expensive and a new sleeve, piston and rings aren't too bad either. but the stuff needs to be installed... how mechanically inclined are you? champion motorsports isn't too far from you, i think they are up north of st. marys, might want to stop in there or give them a ring. doug, of haydug cycles, does great work for reasonable prices and is a super guy, but he's about 7 hours sw of you.
don't know how much $$$ it'd take. head gaskets aren't real expensive and a new sleeve, piston and rings aren't too bad either. but the stuff needs to be installed... how mechanically inclined are you? champion motorsports isn't too far from you, i think they are up north of st. marys, might want to stop in there or give them a ring. doug, of haydug cycles, does great work for reasonable prices and is a super guy, but he's about 7 hours sw of you.
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