Blown head gasket - Lose coolant?

You can loose coolent throgh a blown head gasket. It can be either going into your cumbustion chamber or worse yet into your oil. If it is going into your oil you need to fix it need change your oil

take a close look at your freeze plugs (they tend to produce hidden leaks). usually a blown head gasket assoiciated with loosing coolant will be accompanied with milky oil. . the first thing I would do is check freeze plugs, then do a compression check. also when you loose coolant through the exhaust you can smell it. hope this helps chris

Going thru the same thing right now myself. Just put a set of Thumper heads on and finally got everything together. Took a couple short trips with the car to get it broke in. Noticed the temp would rise. Thought I just had air in the cooling system to get out. Kept topping off the coolant. Still was loosing it and it was getting hot. Finally decided to drain the oil and do an oil change. Ya, chocolate shake colored oil came out! Did a pressure test of the cooling system. Will not hold pressure! Is it possible to put a head gasket on wrong? Looks like I will be taking everything apart to see what happened.

No one has mentioned the fact that you might have a leak in your overflow tank which is a common problem. Take it off the car, fill it w/ water and leave it in the up right position for a day or two. Hope this helps.
DC

You WILL know if you blow a headgasket. trust me, take it upon the expert at blowing headgaskets...

If its in your oil, it will look like a milkshake... Otherwise if its getting burned in your combustion chambers, you will have an assload of white smoke and the car will be studdering at any constant driving rpm..... the water you are talking about in the morning is just condensation..

I would do as darthcual suggests and check your overflow tank/bottle. Another suggestion is to replace your radcap. If a radcap goes, it will vent coolant. At 5 bucks, it's a cheap check/replacement. I would also check the Rad very closley. Small pinhole leaks can get rid of a lot of coolant and still not leave any telltale wet marks on the driveway.

There is also a fluid available that you can dump in your rad that flouresces under a black light. Basically, you clean your engine and then dump a container full into your rad. Drive around for a couple days, and then take a black light and look under the hood at nightime. You can buy it at pep boys. It can help you trace a coolant leak. I'll try to find the name of the stuff.

Finally, check the carpets in the passenger footwells to see if they're wet. If they are, you may have a heater core leak.

Hope this helps

Cheers