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Blown head gasket? 200 1978

posted by  Onkel Udo II on  Sat Aug 18 17:02 CST 2012
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Three symptoms of a blown headgasket:

Steam cleaned spark plug
Oil in the coolant (floats on top in the overflow bottle)
Water in the oil (oil looks like chocolate milk)

If you have none of these, it is time to start looking elsewhere. Even when it is a hot steaming leak into a cylinder, one of the plugs will be WAY too clean.

The white smoke is usually coolant and I can't tell you what else it would be but some other sort of water ingestion so I am not help there.






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