let us know what you find out.

 

well, it looks like my brother might have completely warped my cylinder head. oh man...i think i'm gonna kill him. the psi on the cylinders 1-3 from front to back were 150, 25, 15...then i didn't even bother w/ the last one.

 

'Sorry to hear that.

I'm guessing that you have a blown head gasket. That would explain the gas smell in the coolant. It probably didn't turn over due to hydrolock. When you were tyrying to crank the engine, the air in one of your cylinders was being pushed into your coolant, causing the bubbles. A blown head gasket would cause the low compression as well.

you can't tell if your head is toast yet. I suggest that you have the head removed to see what you have. In the mean time, drain your oil to remove any coolant that got in there.

Good luck.

 

yeah, i've already started looking around for shops to do work...my friend said that if worse comes to worse, and the head is messed up, he has a buddy that owns a machine shop that he uses for all his built engines, said he'll machine it for $50 bucks if it needs it. but...i'm hoping and praying that its just the head gasket.

and guys, please pray that i dont kill my brother...i've never been so furious w/ someone in my entire life. the fact that he never even apologized for taking my car w/out my permission and never asked to see what was up w/ the car also makes me 10x more pissed.

 

ouch.

If I had a brother and he did to me as you say he did to you, that muthr fkr would be ded or at least buying me a built engine.

 

You mean your brother is still alive?

IMO, you shouldn't be mad at him. You should ask him, "Whose problem is this?"

If he says it is his, then he will take care of the problem.

If he says it is yours, then you need to "convince" him it is his problem. If the "consequences" in his mind are more than the alternatives, he will be responsible.

There are plenty of ways to convince him:

• Legal - by law, he stole your car and can be sued.
• Financial - You take or break an equivalent amount of his property
• Social - convince your parents or his friends to make it his responsibility
• Physical - not recommended, but definitely an alternative.

If the only price he is required to pay is to have an angry brother and he really doesn't care how you feel, he will definitely not own up to the damage.

 

trust me, i've thought a lot about the first 3 options (not so much the 4th, because i've always been a big person of fighting to defend oneself, not fighting out of anger or sport). as far as suing him, haha....fat chance, the guy honestly hasn't worked in about 3 years (he's actually a year older than me mind you, im 24)...and probably has a total of 500 worth of possessions in his name, so thats outta the question.

haha, breaking his stuff...he doesn't have much, but still that wouldn't help me recoup w/e i have to put into my car.

the one thing that i've really come to, which is sad, is just personally disowning him. this is seriously the last of a long line of broken promises and complete slaps to the face that he's pulled over the years. comes a point when enough is enough, i'm tired of being the "battered wife" in the relationship...if that makes sense. but in all honestly, there's still a lot more that he asks of me than me of him, and its always been that way. i'll just be the one not to help him, that'll be 10x more fulfilling that kicking his ass or breaking his stuff.

 

The fourth option doesn't have to be out of anger. It can be diabolical and crude. Quite satisfying if I say so myself, I have a brother much like yours.... just waiting for him to give me a reason to teach him a lesson. Sometimes tough love is the best thing you can do, for both you and him.

 

Damn, dude thats shitty deals. The best thing for you to do is take the head off, and hope its the HG, but a head gasket leak shouldnt make the numbers that bad, i think: unless its a huge ass leak.

 

check the radiator hose and make sure none of them are bent :]
just an idea cause thats what happened to me