White foamy bubbles.

[GIDYUP]

Ok guys i have a quick question and i'm hoping the answer isn't bad news but i'm guessing more then likely it will be. I was driving the other day and parked at the service station, i went in to pay for petrol and came back out to my car and noticed a small amount of white foamy bubbles dripping from my radiator overflow pipe. Do u guys know why that would be? When driving the temp gauge reads as it normally does. I'm not really mechanically minded so i'm not sure why this is, any help or thoughts on what it could be would be a great help. Thanks.

 

[bnickel]

could just be an air pocket in the cooling system, but it could be a blown head gasket or a cracked head, then again it could be that your water pump is starting to go out, maybe even a bad radiator cap, i would start by pressure testing the system and go from there, if the car doesn't get hot it might not be abything to worry about, but i would definately start looking the cooling system over real good

 

[GIDYUP]

Yeah thanks for the help mate, i was hoping it wasn't a blown head gasket or cracked head. I know last time i had my car serviced the guy said my water pump was on it's way out so i'm hoping that's all it is. Anyway i'll get it checked out but yeah as i said, thanks for the help mate.