What are the sighns of head gasket faliure?
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What are the sighns of head gasket faliure?
Hi all iv got a bit of a dilema, could someone give me some advice please,
Right was driving to work a few weeks ago when i noticed steam coming from the bonnet vents on my scoob, pulled over lifted bonnet and found my rad had split on the plastic spout top of rad near the header tank, a week proir to this i had to replace the header tank as it split, now the dilema is iv been told my iv got head gasket faluire although iv had no checks done as of yet, the water in the header tank is frothy but it is a very clean white colour and looks more like fairy washing up liquid bubbles than anything else??? and i have no mayonaisey type stuff anywhere, dipstick, oil filler cap, iv parked the car up an havent used it since the prob jus havn`t had time to sort it, but it still starts an runs perfectly (apart from split rad of course).
Does this sound like head gasket faluire? Am i going to have to strip the engine out and start a project thread lol.
Thanks in advance
Worbs
Right was driving to work a few weeks ago when i noticed steam coming from the bonnet vents on my scoob, pulled over lifted bonnet and found my rad had split on the plastic spout top of rad near the header tank, a week proir to this i had to replace the header tank as it split, now the dilema is iv been told my iv got head gasket faluire although iv had no checks done as of yet, the water in the header tank is frothy but it is a very clean white colour and looks more like fairy washing up liquid bubbles than anything else??? and i have no mayonaisey type stuff anywhere, dipstick, oil filler cap, iv parked the car up an havent used it since the prob jus havn`t had time to sort it, but it still starts an runs perfectly (apart from split rad of course).
Does this sound like head gasket faluire? Am i going to have to strip the engine out and start a project thread lol.
Thanks in advance
Worbs
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Originally Posted by worbs
Hi all iv got a bit of a dilema, could someone give me some advice please,
Right was driving to work a few weeks ago when i noticed steam coming from the bonnet vents on my scoob, pulled over lifted bonnet and found my rad had split on the plastic spout top of rad near the header tank, a week proir to this i had to replace the header tank as it split, now the dilema is iv been told my iv got head gasket faluire although iv had no checks done as of yet, the water in the header tank is frothy but it is a very clean white colour and looks more like fairy washing up liquid bubbles than anything else??? and i have no mayonaisey type stuff anywhere, dipstick, oil filler cap, iv parked the car up an havent used it since the prob jus havn`t had time to sort it, but it still starts an runs perfectly (apart from split rad of course).
Does this sound like head gasket faluire? Am i going to have to strip the engine out and start a project thread lol.
Thanks in advance
Worbs
Right was driving to work a few weeks ago when i noticed steam coming from the bonnet vents on my scoob, pulled over lifted bonnet and found my rad had split on the plastic spout top of rad near the header tank, a week proir to this i had to replace the header tank as it split, now the dilema is iv been told my iv got head gasket faluire although iv had no checks done as of yet, the water in the header tank is frothy but it is a very clean white colour and looks more like fairy washing up liquid bubbles than anything else??? and i have no mayonaisey type stuff anywhere, dipstick, oil filler cap, iv parked the car up an havent used it since the prob jus havn`t had time to sort it, but it still starts an runs perfectly (apart from split rad of course).
Does this sound like head gasket faluire? Am i going to have to strip the engine out and start a project thread lol.
Thanks in advance
Worbs
Hope this helps
Best test is compresion test or check for combustion gasses in cooling circuit. I've worked in radiator industry for a long time now and when components in cooling circuit start to burst its usually because of the extremely high pressure spikes caused by combustion gases escaping in to the coolant side through head gasket. Especially worse on turbo - charged engines. I've seen Cosworth radiators that are almost round as the core has expanded due to high pressures.
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Head gaskets went on my 4CAm Legacy about 18 months ago. Car wouldn't drive for more than 15 mins without the temp guage going through the roof, and all the hoses around the engine got rock hard with the increased pressure. Clincher was the steady stream of bubbles into the header tank.
I had no mayo or anything like that......
Not conclusive, but hope that helps!
I had no mayo or anything like that......
Not conclusive, but hope that helps!
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Cheers for the replys folks, i can run the car for a while with no majour temp increase, the guage raises no higher that normal, ill get my local garage to perform a few tests to confirm for me but im kind of 99% its the head gasket/s.
Oh well if it is for sure then PROJECT VERSION 1 will deffo be on the cards lol.
Oh well if it is for sure then PROJECT VERSION 1 will deffo be on the cards lol.
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