After a few days of light work, I finally got down to the heads and removed them today. I removed them due to symptoms of a blown head gasket.
Symptoms were:
overheating
coolant changing to a dark, dingy brown
coolant bubbles in overflow tank
large amounts of pressure in cooling system
When I pulled the valve covers and lower intake off, there was the standard chocolate milkshake EVERYWHERE, clearly a sign of a blown HG.
I removed the heads, and much to my surprise the gaskets were intact, they were strangely dirty in the middle parts and didnt appear to be in great cosmetic shape.
When I was removing the heads, i noticed some of the bolts were fairly snug and required a breaker bar, while some were tightened but did not seem to be as tight as i assume head bolts would be. None of the bolts except for 1 had thread locker on them.
Also. there were no dowel pins. Not stuck in the head, block, etc.
What do you guys think? These were not the stock gaskets. Could it be that they were blown and the idiot that owned this car before me replaced them but did a bad job?
Any ideas/suggestions appreciated
Symptoms were:
overheating
coolant changing to a dark, dingy brown
coolant bubbles in overflow tank
large amounts of pressure in cooling system
When I pulled the valve covers and lower intake off, there was the standard chocolate milkshake EVERYWHERE, clearly a sign of a blown HG.
I removed the heads, and much to my surprise the gaskets were intact, they were strangely dirty in the middle parts and didnt appear to be in great cosmetic shape.
When I was removing the heads, i noticed some of the bolts were fairly snug and required a breaker bar, while some were tightened but did not seem to be as tight as i assume head bolts would be. None of the bolts except for 1 had thread locker on them.
Also. there were no dowel pins. Not stuck in the head, block, etc.
What do you guys think? These were not the stock gaskets. Could it be that they were blown and the idiot that owned this car before me replaced them but did a bad job?
Any ideas/suggestions appreciated