[V8] Who's had a bad had gasket?

[Ingo Rautenberg]

My understanding is that any headgasket problems wrt V8's have to do with
not properly flushing out old coolant when changing over types, which can
cause the headgasket to be damaged/eaten away.

Otherwise, it's as everyone says -- aluminum alloy plus aluminum alloy =
happiness :-D

Ingo

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Maurice Greven
<maurice.greven at verizon.net>wrote:

> From my understanding, the V8Q is NOT steel block, aluminum heads but
> instead its aluminum/aluminum... Big difference....
>
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> Subject: Re: [V8] Who's had a bad had gasket?
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> Anything but the run of the mill green (blue or whatever), safe for
> aluminum coolant is a waste of money.  This was beaten to death on the
> main list a while back, with a resident industrial chemist explaining it.
>  I've been running the "evil green" Prestone in all my Audi's (including
> 2 V8Q's) for over 2 decades now (starting with my '84 5KS and lesser '82
> 5K before that), if something was going to happen, I figure it should
> have by now.
> Never had a head gasket problem on any of them.  Any engine that starts
> blowing head gaskets en mass is a design, manufacture or material flaw,
> IMHO.
>
> BCNU,
> http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
> "God's a kid with an ant farm. He's not planning anything."
>
> "toml99 at todomundo.com" <toml99 at todomundo.com> writes:
> > Hey, was just thinking about stuff, and was wondering on a percentage
> >
> > base, who's had a head gasket problem?.....Most steel block/aluminum
> >
> > head cars have issues around 150K, and was reading on the Saab site
> >
> > tonight that many are going to a phosphate-free type of coolant.
> > Pearl car still has the green coolant in it(evil), and plan to fix
> >
> > that this weekend.  Don't hear of a lot of people complaining of
> > head
> > gasket issues with the v8....(good thing).  With a properly
> > maintained car, who's had a head gasket issue?.....Just looking for
> >
> > another reason to validate our obsession.........Tom
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