3.0 mamfold gets cherry red after running about 5 minutes. Head gaskets were replaced but the heds were not rebuilt. What would cause the engine to shoot flames past the valves?
94 Caravan Cherry Manafold
Aug 10, 2006
7 Replies
FUEL FUEL AND MORE FUEL. Is the check engine lite on? is the vehicle running bad???/ Black smoke from the tail pipe?
Glenn Beasley Chrysler Tech
Check engine light is not on and not codes are flashing. It rung just below 2000 rpms wich i way to high and it"s not smoking
The converter is not red and we took it off to see if it was blocked and that"s when we noticed flames coing out of the manafold
You got to take this into a dealer and have them hook a scantool to the engine computer and run the engine and look at the readouts the scantool is telling them. This is an EFI engine so something is telling the computer to greatly richen the mixture. Somewhere a sensor has gone wrong and the computer can't detect it.
Ted
If you are looking at this at nite after you just come off a drive under load you will see it may be red. And if you take the manifold off while the engine is running you will also see flames coming out of the engine. Thats normal. Other then the that how does the vehicle run?
Glenn Beasley Chrysler tech
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