Just pull this shit out of my radiator

[FR33K]

as the title says..
i know its most prob my headgasket..
just cant figure out why is not really milky... its very sandy..
rub it in ur fingers and it doesnt stain ur hands..
heres a pic

oh yeh its also using a lot of water...:(
and while we are at it.. anyone recommend a good head gasket ??

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/FR33K/raddd.jpg

[jdmlvn]

it could be rust. can it? or just a clot of dirt

[bennjamin]

do a full radiator flush and top up with coolant...see if that gets rid of that crud.

Also , might be ur radiator is rusting from the inside...

[SKREMN]

I'll donate to the charity
want my old one?

[tinkerbell]

how many KM your radiator done?

it could actually be the insides of your rubber hoses? what coolant have/are you using?

i have never seen anything like that before - which bit of the radiator did it come from? very weird!

can you provide some relativity scale - is that clump of stuff the size of a 20c piece or samller?

best HG = OEM honda...

[wkdteg]

mine is also currently takin up heaps of water, ive decided 2 park it till i figure it out.
i got no idea wat that could b, rust wouldnt form in that shape or color, let alone that much. flush out ur radiator, then c wat happens

let us know how it goes.

[FR33K]

its about 2 20c pieces..
and i got it off my radiator cap :(

radiator hasnt done much kms.. only about 9 months since i serviced it.. altough it did have a bit of shit in it from blowing my old engine..
but i flushed it all out
this is all new stuff.. and the water seems to be goin down fast.. every 2 days or so..

[wkdteg]

if ur loosing that much water, then its a problem. i drove my car about 100kms on tuesday, took about 2ltrs of water, with 2 stops. ide have urs checked out, might b sumthin small like a hose, or major like a water pump or head.

ill have an ask about that stuff u found, juss gimmi an hr or so

[FR33K]

but theres no leaks...

[wkdteg]

but its still losin water?

[wkdteg]

hey dude, i just asked my old man whos a mechanic.
i remember u said that ude done ur head before, he says that gunk could b oil from when u done the head. it could have seeped in2 the radiator, because it wasnt flushed out properly when u were gettin it fixed.

he says be careful coz the that amount of gunk could have bloked ur radiator, which means water may b blocked from reachin the gasket, and u may have blown it. that may b y ur losing water aswell.

[SKREMN]

You can be leaking water into the pistons and then burning it and blowing it out the exhaust
Then there are now visable signs of a water leak
maybe just retouque the head
gotta take out the cams and shit
but if you go that far you might as well change the gasket

[FR33K]

yeh... well c tomorrow !
i think 99.9% chance its my head gasket..
hmm rebuild here we come

[wkdteg]

didnt u just get a b16a?

[FR33K]

just about 12months ago now lol
and i didnt do anything to it when i got it.. just dumped it straight it so i should be happy with 12 months lol

[Flanderz]

hey guys, this is what my radiator looked like after blowing my head gasket, Brown oily deposits in the radiator, always collected at the cap too.

http://www.ozhonda.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=500/5729Oil_in_water-med.jpg

http://www.ozhonda.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=500/5729Oil_in_water_1-med.jpg

Hope this helps

[FR33K]

found a hole in my radiator !! it was weird.. didnt leak until i decided to jack the car up this morning and it started leaking from the side

but still doesnt explain all the shit in my radiator...

[D16Y]

its some form of stop leak. they always got that sandy stuff in them to seal up the cracks...

[TRU32U]

hey guys if you need a radiator i remember buying one from a joint thats recoed for like 100 bucks or so...
its in warrick farm, re-conditioned...

[wkdteg]

i dont think the stop leak looks like that though. could b reminence of ur old gasket