FastLife91
Torque Junkie
A few weeks ago my car was loosing water, I could not find a leak anywhere and even replaced the expansion bottle.
I decided to get a chemical test done on the coolant ( well, water as doesn't have antifreeze in atm) and it changed color almost right away and the man said the head gasket is gone. there was no symptoms at all other than loss of water.
The other week I had a big water leak, found it to be from a metal pipe near back of engine, had a small hole in it, since fixing the pipe I have had no water loss whatsoever in the past 3 weeks or so, also there is no smoke, no oil/water mixing, no power loss (other than what I suspect to be from bad MAF wiring loom)
I am wondering if oil may have got into the hole on the metal pipe (as also had leaking turbo pipe at same time ) and that is why the test has revealed bad head gasket ?
Is it possible that the head gasket might not actually be gone on my car ?
There did seem to be a rather lot of pressure when we disconnected a radiator hose after the car had been off for 2 days but not sure if this means much ?
cheers
I decided to get a chemical test done on the coolant ( well, water as doesn't have antifreeze in atm) and it changed color almost right away and the man said the head gasket is gone. there was no symptoms at all other than loss of water.
The other week I had a big water leak, found it to be from a metal pipe near back of engine, had a small hole in it, since fixing the pipe I have had no water loss whatsoever in the past 3 weeks or so, also there is no smoke, no oil/water mixing, no power loss (other than what I suspect to be from bad MAF wiring loom)
I am wondering if oil may have got into the hole on the metal pipe (as also had leaking turbo pipe at same time ) and that is why the test has revealed bad head gasket ?
Is it possible that the head gasket might not actually be gone on my car ?
There did seem to be a rather lot of pressure when we disconnected a radiator hose after the car had been off for 2 days but not sure if this means much ?
cheers