Sentences with phrase «head gaskets in»

DETROIT — General Motors Corp. announced Monday it will pay to replace the head gaskets in up to 500,000 1987 - 1991 vehicles equipped with four - cylinder Quad 4 engines, a program that could cost the automaker $ 275 million.

(I've fully described a head gasket in this answer.)

You can use Alpine B3 S Biturbo head gasket in order to reduce compression ratio.

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I had planned to sign up at the Love level day on Thursday, but the car my son drives blew a head gasket and I hope to replace it before he returns from ministry school in CA in December.

The worst of this 4 - 6 quartet is the Miami Dolphins — their head coach, Adam Gase, blows childish gaskets every five minutes while orchestrating a team that often plays in similar, infantile fashion.

A failing head gasket might also be leaking oil out of the block, which could explain a large loss of oil without an equal gain in the coolant level.

In the case where you run it too hot, you could start messing up your head gasket or warping the head itself.

In the meantime, here's a relevant question on how to test for a bad head gasket, as that's a possibility here.

But I suppose it would also be possible that while idling a normal reduction in coolant flow could allow a small head gasket leak to display coolant that would be replaced, or mitigated, when the engine speed caused more vigorous circulation to resume.

I took off the valve cover to replace the gasket and noticed that there was quite a bit of oil puddled in the cylinder head.

Can you explain how running a lower octane in the absents of spark knock causes head gasket damage?

The car is not really exhibiting the classic signs of a blown head gasket (blue smoke, coolant in oil etc), which is part of what makes this a puzzle.

Your problem, like you said, could be the cooler, a head gasket leak, or a crack somewhere... I would put them in this order of probability, though.

One is at the head gasket where oil can leak across the top of the head to the water passages (or into the cylinder or out the edge of the gasket) if the head isn't properly torqued of perhaps if there is corrosion in the cooling system.

What looks and acts like a blown head gasket, resulting in coolant in the cylinder, when the head gasket is fine?

My guess is going to be a problem with your head gasket or some crack or warping in the head.

Overheating causing blown head gasket: as indicated in other answers, severe and prolonged overheating can cause the engine block to warp, meaning your head gasket won't seal properly anymore.

The head gasket between the crankcase and the cylinder head could show weakness as the differing expansion expands one component a bit more than the other and over time weaken adhesion between the two surfaces resulting in a failure.

In no way does the symptoms scream head gasket to me.

Here's an example using a scope, this came in after a head gasket replacement and you can see the balancer is slightly off.

Oil in the coolant can foul the temp sensor, which would also be a sign of a bad head gasket.

And to think of all those Offy Indy engines and Testa Fissa Alfas in which the block and head were one piece to prevent blown head gaskets.

water flowing into head and boiling cause gaskets stuffed between cylinders a bottle of chemiweld there are others it works best fixes that in moments.

If milk - like oil ends up in the radiator despite replacing the head gasket, it is likely that the head itself has warped due to overheating, allowing oil to leak into the coolant channels.

You can test your rings and head gasket with a leak down tester Checking your spark plugs as shown in @Zaid's post is the first order of business.

You would be talking adding lot more water in the mix to even have any adverse affects (blown head gasket and such), than just a little bit of humidity which would most likely evaporate at running temperature anyway.

You can do a compression test to check for head gasket failure, which involves removing each spark plug in turn and replacing it with a gauge that reads the amount of compression in the cylinder - if the head gasket is blown, one or two will be well below the others.

I feel like I wasn't confident enough of the combustion gases in the block were of a sufficient volume for a small head gasket leak that we suspected.

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As with pressure, this includes pipes, gaskets etc., but also the types of metal used in the cylinder head, pistons themselves and the exhaust.

White smoke from the exhaust when started tends to point to a failed head gasket, causing coolant to burn in the cylinders.

Extreme temperatures lead to warped heads which will in turn lead to a blown gasket.

In the end the mechanic discovered it was caused by bad oil, it was not head gasket problem, just clogged drain on the front end of the engine and nearly clogged in the bacIn the end the mechanic discovered it was caused by bad oil, it was not head gasket problem, just clogged drain on the front end of the engine and nearly clogged in the bacin the back.

In most cases, if you have a blown head gasket, you'll be losing coolant.

I think it's Block Seal Head Gasket Fix... Instant headgasket in an easy - pour can.

While this cracking may still be caused by regular vibrations I am wondering if blown head gasket may have actually caused periodic pressure fluctuations in the cooling system and that somehow contributed to the coolant reservoir wall fatigue.

If you consistently ignite the fuel a little too early, you'll blow holes in your pistons, break piston rings, break connecting rods, shatter crankshafts, blow head gaskets, etc..

If these areas are not clean, it can lead to hot spots in the cylinder, and a poorly sealing head gasket.

Like you said THE COOLANT MUST BE GOING SOMEWHERE and it's not on the passenger floorboard or the ground so it's being eaten up somewhere in the engine (head gasket).

Check the gasket between cylinder head and cylinder block becoz bad gasket can cause leakge of oil as well as coolent also and both can come in cylinder bore....

I would have never put in a new radiator if I'd known the real problem was the head gasket.

Sometimes catastrophic head failures don't contaminate the oil (which does indeed produce a frothy substance as you describe); the head could be cracked from the outside into a coolant passage, or, rarely and usually only in poorly manufactured or improperly installed gaskets, the head gasket can blow outward from a coolant passage.

This results in a low coolant level, so is that why it is overheating or is that a result of a head gasket?

You can get a relatively cheap kit to test for exhaust gases in the coolant (or any number of other methods to test the head gasket.)

I recently did a head gasket repair on my 1986 Kawasaki GPZ1000RX and now that everything is back together it starts up fine, idles fine, and revs high without a problem while in neutral, but when I put it into gear and started driving it it'll drive fine when giving it slight throttle, but when I get to the higher revs, or when I open the throttle too quickly it bogs down badly, and starts stuttering, but eventually starts revving higher and leveling out.

I've seen different descriptions to there may be a metal gasket in between the pump and the head and some pictures show two rubber or viton seals that may be inside the pump.

Lastly, oil in the reservoir is also an indication of possible bad head gaskets and / or other things.

Oil in the coolant is often indicative of a blown head gasket, but there are many other reasons why it would happen.

It either goes on the ground (external leak), in the passenger floorboard (heater core), in the engine oil (head gasket), gets burned up (head gasket, or possibly intake gasket), boils off, or it stays put.

If there is oil in the coolant (looks like mud or creamy mayo) this usually indicates issues with the head gasket and / or cylinder head.