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head gasket blowout 700 1990

posted by  skim35 on  Wed Sep 10 07:16 CST 2003
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Because the engine over-heated.
Engine over-heats, all gasket seals would pop.

The timing belt cover becomes brittle & crak. No way to align cam next time you do the belt change job.You would have to take out all cam gears for next timing belt job

Thermo-stat usually gets tosted, causing no-heat in winter problem.
Or worse, over heat the engine again if it gets stuck closed.

Also warps cylinder head causing head gasket failuare.
(There are limitations to how much you can machine the head, at worst case you will have to replace the head)


Water around the pump, means the pump is done. You should be replacing these things in every 50K miles or you would run into over heating problem (and all the problem above repeats)





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