[s-cars] Now Blown head gasket - was : stumble and smoke at idle

[james McCarthy]

ok  - coolant in cyl #3 anyone wit a pretty rebuilt ported/polished head they want to part with????
thanks
-jamie - rs2'd with a blown head gasket...

--- On Tue, 12/15/09, djdawson2 at aol.com <djdawson2 at aol.com> wrote:

> From: djdawson2 at aol.com <djdawson2 at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Now Blown head gasket - was : stumble and smoke at idle
> To: Vittorio.Bares at nuance.com, andrew.sb at gmail.com, jjssmccarthy at yahoo.com, s-car-list at audifans.com
> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 10:54 AM
> 
>  Yeah...
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> But don't get stuck in "over analysis
> paralysis."  If you've got sweet smelling
> steam coming out the tailpipe when you fire it up, your head
> gasket is shot.  No need to spend another bunch of
> hours and effort doing compression and/or leakdown tests.
> 
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> 
> Vittorio's failure was the tougher of various gasket
> failure scenarios to troubleshoot... a failure between
> adjacent cylinders.  Yours sounds like the more
> "normal" failure between a cylinder and the
> coolant passages, where coolant is either going to get
> sucked into the cylinder, or combustion pressure is going to
> be forced through the cooling system.
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> Good luck,
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> 
> Dave
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> -----Original
> Message-----
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> From: Bares, Vittorio <Vittorio.Bares at nuance.com>
> 
> To: Andrew B <andrew.sb at gmail.com>;
> jjssmccarthy at yahoo.com; s-car-list at audifans.com
> 
> Sent: Tue, Dec 15, 2009 8:39 am
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> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Now Blown head gasket - was : stumble
> and smoke at idle
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> I've also recently gone
> through the HG failure adventure. I did both the
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> compression and leak-down tests. Compression is a pretty
> simple test if
> 
> you can find someone to lend you the tool. Leak-down is the
> next step to
> 
> get a better idea of where the problem may be - but the
> Compression test
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> is quick and easy and will at least tell you if you need to
> look
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> further. Leak-down will give you more info and confidence
> that pulling
> 
> the head is a good idea.
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> 
> Vittorio -
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
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> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]
> On Behalf Of Andrew B
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:10 AM
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> To: jjssmccarthy at yahoo.com;
> s-car-list at audifans.com
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> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Now Blown head gasket - was : stumble
> and smoke at
> 
> idle
> 
> 
> 
> Jamie,
> 
> Sorry to hear that.  I went through almost exactly the same
> symptoms
> 
> recently, and it turned out to a warped (beyond repair)
> head.
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> Stumble at start up, went away with a flick of the
> throttle.
> 
> Significant white smoke, but honestly not an exceptional
> amount.  Mine
> 
> started with a "coolant volcano" though and
> bloomed from there.
> 
> Coolant got darker, leaked out the top, bubbles in the
> coolant, all
> 
> that fun stuff.
> 
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> 
> I paid to have a guy check it out, and he confirmed it for
> me.  Might
> 
> be worth taking it to a good local shop if you
> can/don't want to do
> 
> the tests yourself/don't mind paying.  I didn't
> have access to that
> 
> kind of equipment.
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> 
> Good luck...here's hoping it's something stupid
> like a loose hose
> 
> clamp or whatever!
> 
> 
> 
> -Andrew
> 
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