Hiya,
Purchased a MK1 75sx a few months ago and fell in love with its simplicity etc. Then a few weeks ago an overheating problem that went real bad got me to a garage for diagnostics. They said they did a water test and the head gasket had gone :bang:
Well, since the garage was talking about £400 and I only purchased the car for £470 I thought to hell with it, lets do it myself :slayer:
Now I love cars, but im no mechanic, the most advanced thing I did was change spark plugs. Yet this brilliant site has really helped me with guides etc and today I finally got the damn head off
The thing is, I wanted to have a look at the gasket to see what went wrong. On inspection, the water channels are severely gacked up with rust coloured crap. However, I cant visually see any cracks between a cylinder and a port, nor any visual path showing how the water got into the cylinder
I will try and get a pic tommorow, but Im really confused. Obviously there is a leak hence the gack (and the severe white smoke out of the exhaust). But how is the water getting in?
One theory I had was becasue the gack was so bad, (It wasnt flushed with the gasket) it could have caused a small pocket somewhere. But then the gasket has to fail for the gack to form?!
I really dont want the answer to be a warped block guys! It looks okay I aint cleaned it yet. Your thoughts????? :idea:
The head should be going to get machined in the week...
Purchased a MK1 75sx a few months ago and fell in love with its simplicity etc. Then a few weeks ago an overheating problem that went real bad got me to a garage for diagnostics. They said they did a water test and the head gasket had gone :bang:
Well, since the garage was talking about £400 and I only purchased the car for £470 I thought to hell with it, lets do it myself :slayer:
Now I love cars, but im no mechanic, the most advanced thing I did was change spark plugs. Yet this brilliant site has really helped me with guides etc and today I finally got the damn head off
The thing is, I wanted to have a look at the gasket to see what went wrong. On inspection, the water channels are severely gacked up with rust coloured crap. However, I cant visually see any cracks between a cylinder and a port, nor any visual path showing how the water got into the cylinder
I will try and get a pic tommorow, but Im really confused. Obviously there is a leak hence the gack (and the severe white smoke out of the exhaust). But how is the water getting in?
One theory I had was becasue the gack was so bad, (It wasnt flushed with the gasket) it could have caused a small pocket somewhere. But then the gasket has to fail for the gack to form?!
I really dont want the answer to be a warped block guys! It looks okay I aint cleaned it yet. Your thoughts????? :idea:
The head should be going to get machined in the week...
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