[V8] Leaking heads

[Paul Jager]

I think all V8's will have the smoking oil gun issue, probably sooner than
later. My car it was 3-4 years from new, head gaskets done by the dealer,
and it has leaked on me from the day I got it at just 115K km's. Now with
185K it's the Exxon Valdez. Tell-tale slick where ever I park.

Well not that bad, but seems like it when starting from cold & colder. In
fact for a full winter's driving I've added only a liter of oil.

The oil pipe or port from the block to the heads. One is on the back side of
the driver's side, and front side passenger sealed by the head gasket. As
you guys know, it doesn't take much to leak oil and it doesn't take much oil
to smoke out a V8.

One clue - is the leak oil pressure/revs related? I ran 0W30 and my leak was
much less (less oil pressure). I still have to torque my passenger side up.
Maybe can hold things off for another year.

Joe Hazelwood

89 Valdez
93V8Q...

"Hey your engine is on fire"
"What's that smoke coming from your car"
"Are you the guy on pump#8? you'd better check your engine"
"Phew, someone is doing a tar&gravel roof around here"
"Is that your ship on the rocks?"
"I just had a couple of beers"





-----Original Message-----
From: v8-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf
Of rmwoodbury at adelphia.net
Sent: March 23, 2007 10:56 AM
To: V8 at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [V8] Leaking heads


Be very very cautious about tearing off the heads to find a leak.  There are
a lot of places that leaks can occur and right behind the cambelt housings
is a great one because you really are hard pressed to see how it can leak.
The leak masquerades as either a head gasket leak or a leak through the
casting of the cylinder head itself.

fwiw

Roger
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