Blown head gasket?

[RandyRhydah]

ive had the temp creep up over 90 ish today and i went to go bleed the system but while doing this i notived alot of foam coming up in the radiator

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/182711_10150144176725862_621700861_8538263_1971728 _n.jpg

im lead to believe it isnt a good thing, lol

BHG?

[honda_zivic]

if its bubbling then yes ur HG is shot.

[RandyRhydah]

foams up when you rev it only bubbles a tiny bit on idle

[honda_zivic]

ok ur HG is on d way then. do u have to top up water/coolant after a while ?

also r u blowing white smoke ? or even tiny bit? u cant c it, get a mate drive behind u.

[jeremydawg]

Check your oil, if your head gasket is blown the coolant can run into your oil, youll notice a change of color. ^like he said, do you have to top up water constantly? Could be that you have a leak in your radiator, hence engine gets hot and head gasket blows

Its an expensive fix! prob around $800

[RandyRhydah]

oil is still clean. i have had a few water leaks but they are fixed now i will monitor the water level from now.

I'm fine with the headgasket blowing, its an easy fix and will go a full rebuild at the same time. more worried if i have cracked a sleeve or something along the lines of that. lol

thanks for the info guys

no idea about smoke.. no mates can keep up with me lol. ill ask someone to follow me

[grifty]

looks like theres also oil in the coolant

[rotary_snail]

Easiest way to check for a blown head gasket is to go to a radiator joint and get them to test for combustion gases in the coolant. After that you will be 100% in the know. Only other tests which can verify it will be a compression and leak down test.

3 ways the head gasket can go really:
1. Coolant to cylinder = white smoke, bubbling coolant in cap, overheating, sometimes hard starts.
2. Coolant to oil = Overheating, milky emulsion in the oil/coolant, can blow you engine from this one.
3. Oil to cylinder = blue smoke, lack of compression, ect ect.

Never seen the headgasket blow oil to cylinder myself.

[RandyRhydah]

thanks will look into it this week

[hoyin3132]

I have tried that be4 n wt i can be sure that is i left the car on my drive way for 2 days, then checking the oil cap( The cap u undo it n put the engine oil in)

if there's some water, u are the bad luck gay......Anyway, hope it doesn't happen*

[rotary_snail]

I have tried that be4 n wt i can be sure that is i left the car on my drive way for 2 days, then checking the oil cap( The cap u undo it n put the engine oil in)

if there's some water, u are the bad luck gay......Anyway, hope it doesn't happen*

Not necessarily, it's normal for most cars to build up condesation on the oil cap if left for a few days.

[cvicek]

i took the radiator cap off and trying to bleed the radiator ... when i rev the engine, the coolant raise and flow out from the radiator....is that normal?

when car is warm, and i press the hose ... it seems to be very hard. is that normal?

[DC2-PWR]

i took the radiator cap off and trying to bleed the radiator ... when i rev the engine, the coolant raise and flow out from the radiator....is that normal?

when car is warm, and i press the hose ... it seems to be very hard. is that normal?

Yes it is normal for water to rise when you rev, because you are increasing it's tempreature by revving. Bubbles, boiling water, milky water is something you should be afraid of.

Yes it is normal for that hose to be hard, that indicates that your cooling system is running at a good compression.

[Sexc86]

Go buy a teekay tester ! also if you can see black carbon in your coolant and it actually smeels like exhaust... then you can be sure you have done a HG

[Banana_hammock]

There's a combustion leak tester you could buy. Cheap and easy way to surely diagnose a blown head gasket.

[Sexc86]

thats a teekay/dye tester mate ^

[cihanvtec]

maybe faulty water pump? my 180sx was boiling up aswel and overheating every now and then.. thought it was HG.. turned out waterpump was playing up a little.