[s-cars] No love? Uh oh - Headgasket failure?

[Ed Walsh]

Teddy/Group,

Thank you for your help.

The GOOD news is I don't think the HG is blown!

While I am waiting for the appt. at the dealer, the
mechanic suggested that I pull each of the plugs and
look at their electrode/base.  He told me that the
spark plug whose cyl. was getting coolant (the area
were the HG was blown) would be 100% clean with no C
deposits whatsoever.

Well, all the plugs are dirty/consistent, so hopefully
I can turn my attention elsewhere.

Can anyone think of another place where coolant could
be entering the intake charge?  Turbo?

Thank you for all help!  Ed



--- Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Ed Walsh <rundeep_32 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thank you, Bob, for the help.
> >
> > It does sound plausible that the turbo is
leaking.
> >
> > Still no oil in the coolant and no coolant
in the
> oil.
> >  I think that it is typical to see
either/both
> with a
> > HG failure.  Still boosting fine. Still not
> > overheating.....
>
> no, it depends on where the head gasket blew out.

> it could
> be leaking coolant directly into the combustion
> chamber without
> any mixing with oil.  i wouldn't take the lack of
> coolant in
> oil or vice versa as an indication that there's
no
> HG failure.
>
> -teddy
>
>
>
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