I blown head gasket and you can to!

A recent modification I made to my daughter’s 2011 engine is this handy crankcase access port. As you can see, it is well above the oil pan, so I still have some potential lubrication. I have eliminated that pesky crankcase pressure, leading to oil in the intake manifold. If you are still reading, here’s how I did it.
1) watch YouTube, and think, “I’m going to clean my intake.”
2) get to the part where he says clamp off throttle body coolant lines
3) ignore video.
4) remove hoses, blowing coolant everywhere.
5) calmly wonder how so much pressure is on a cool engine.
Complete intake and full EGR cleaning. Throw in some spark plugs and injectors for fun.
6) RUN THE ENGINE LOW ON COOLANT. It helps if you drive past the dealer on your way to Walmart to get the cheap stuff. You’re going to flush it soon, anyhow.
If you followed every step, you can have a blown head gasket. Now for the access port:
1) Flush the coolant, and run the most expensive head gasket goo you can find. It is guaranteed to work.
2) If it works, you may have to wait awhile. I was lucky. It only took 50 miles, about a week, before I threw a rod.
For all my efforts, my daughter prefers her car without modification. I once surprised her with tinted glass, and she thought it looked like a drug dealer.
So I have ordered a 2015, 56,000 mile engine.
By the way, it hasn’t used any oil (or gas) for a week.
One question:
Should I replace the radiator, or just flush the BlueDevil out?

 

But then

To make a long story longer, I had cleaned the intake 2 years ago, with only a teaspoon of coolant loss. If I hadn’t run out of Netflix, I would have left it alone.
I still don’t know why there was so much pressure in a cool engine.
My daddy used to say, “if you keep picking at it, it will never heal.”

I still need to do the EGR, etc on her sister’s 2010.

 

Thanks for the offer to pull the radiator & take to a shop. I was not looking forward to it. I ordered the water pump, which has a 2-week delivery. That should give you plenty of time.
As for the engine, I’m paying a mechanic $900.
I flushed the radiator and heater core 2x before throwing the rod. Today, I flushed them again, recovering all the coolant and water. I poured them into a pan to see what came out. The first jug, with just coolant, had a little goo and tiny sparkles. Pretty.
There were 4 more jugs with clean water. The radiator shop said I should be fine.
When I was surprised by the throttle body coolant pressure it was before blowing the head gasket.
It didn’t blow until after I ran it low on coolant.
BUT when I pulled the EGR cooler, it was clogged beyond description. I used oven cleaner overnight, even then, a stiff wire would only penetrate 1/8” at a time with pliers. It took hours to clean. That didn’t help the head gasket.

 

You are killing me.

 

That would be a waste of money. Just a little water in one cylinder would do.

Of course, I should have noted on the op:

YOUR RESULTS MAY VARY.

 

Not really a light so much as smoke signals.
I stopped at Walmart for coolant, and gas. After a fill up, It shook & smoked, died. You know, like they sometimes do.
A guy brought over his OB-whatsit tester, and said it had a misfire code.
Being in East Texas, I knew such witchcraft could get us both into trouble.
Hell, my daughter's car has both Bernie & Beto stickers. And it's a Prius.
I see a lot of Priuses with protective Jesus Fish & flag stickers (both USA & Confederate & Texas) & gun racks & bull balls hanging on the bumper --these are cammo. Like tire-slashing deterrents.
I loudly say, "Thanks, pardner. See y'all at church."

Warning light? What this car needs is a klaxon that goes off whenever I open the hood.

 

I started watching behzat c.
Set in Turkey? Cool.

 

No specific warning lights. After I cleaned the EGR cooler, etc., it threw a CE code for EGR.
I wonder if the pipe from the exhaust manifold that leads to the cooler could be just as clogged. Of course, I’ll check on my newish engine.
But it might be a factor for others.

Another thing I noticed before throwing a rod: the new hotter spark plugs would ping, so I changed back to the previously spec plugs. They didn’t ping. Then POW!