finch1
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Registered: 29th Sep 02
Location: WREXHAM
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How can you tell if your headgasket has gone, whats the main symptons? sorry about the silly question.
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Oil in coolant tank, thick white smoke from exhaust, lumpy running, blown engine, white sludge on oil filler cap/dipstick.
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Mattb
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Registered: 2nd Feb 03
Location: Under your sisters bed
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overheating
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paulr202000
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Registered: 20th Jan 01
Location: Lancaster
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water loss, loads of pressure in cooling system eg big hiss when taking coolant cap off and miss fire whan first starting up in the morning for a few seconds.
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
Location: Greater London
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after reading this i feel my head gasket is very gone!
although i only have these
high pressure in water tank
water loss in tank (full yest, al gone now)
thick white smoke
miss fire in the morning
thats all, there no sludge or oil in coolant tank
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ainsley_brader
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Registered: 24th Mar 02
Location: Tattershall, Lincolnshire
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dave 1.4 sports go between no 4 cylinder and water jacket you will have all the symptons you have and no oil water mixing so no sludge as its not near any oil ways
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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not really gettin u mate?, think u may need to use some full stops.
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dave17
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jus re-read, get u now mate
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ainsley_brader
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quote:
Originally posted by ainsley_brader
dave
head gaskets on 1.4 sports go between no 4 cylinder and the water jacket.
Therefore you will have all the symptons that you do have.
But no oil and water mixing as there are no oil ways near the fault.
Therefore you will not have any sludge in header tank or oil filler cap
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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so u think mines defo gone? fadscorsa does and i do too.
shal i drive it at al on leave it on the driveway? sortin out a garage 2 get it sorted 2mo
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