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White Smoke, Brakes and other annoying questions 200 1983

posted by  wongg3 on  Mon Jan 21 18:28 CST 2002
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Well, for the headgasket prob, are you actually losing coolant? How often do you have to top up your expansion tank?

There are a few checks you can do. Pull your plugs and check them for signs of coolant in your engine. You can have a garage do a cooling system pressure test, or rig it up yourself. Then you can see exactly where your leaks are. This is fairly cheap to do. You can also have a garage check your coolant for HC (I think), this would indicate that exhaust is getting into your coolant. Also a cheap check.

I had symptoms similar to yours, but with no external leaking. It started puffing a little on startup. A little later, I started getting oil in the coolant, but I was halfway through a 500 mile trip, so I continued on home. When all was said and done, the coolant had contaminated the oil and took out the turbo as well. I replaced the headgasket and the turbo.

My advice: Get your coolant problem sorted out asap.
So what were the numbers from your compression test?
Greg






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