blown head gasket

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <Pine.OSF.3.91.970319210239.703A-100000@prairie.nodak.edu> Michael J Myers writes:

> Cylinder head gasket gone?

Least of your worries.

> Any other tests I should do first before I tear it apart?

Check bank balance and credit card limits.

> Anything else I should replace while I have the cylinder head removed?

Whoever drove it.
 
> What are the chances the head's warped?

Pretty damn good, I would say.  Perhaps even the block.  John Coughtrie ran his 
car with a coolant leak into #5 for a very few miles and had almost no 
compression in that cylinder thereafter.

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 Phil Payne
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 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club