Good god...I pray it's not a blown head gasket
09-17-2014, 02:28 PM
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Good god...I pray it's not a blown head gasket
Thought I was smelling some exhaust in the cabin, but I've been bottoming out on my driveway regularly and thought my Y-pipe was busted.
Saw *some* white "smoke" in my exhaust...but not an alarming amount (not enough to see behind me when cruising down the road). Only ever noticed it on/at start up standing behind the car (never really checked after the car was actually warmed up).
Bought the car 3k+ miles ago, got an oil change ASAP. The previous owner had it for 2 years but was always out of town so he only drove it ~2k miles. Figuring it had been over a year since the oil was changed, I only kept the oil for about 1,700 miles and did another change. The oil came out light, which I had never seen, but I had also never changed my oil after only 1,700. Thinking back I feel like it looked slightly milky, but I was attributing anything out of the ordinary to the fact that I had changed it way before 3k miles. My imagination is running wild with paranoia and I feel like it definitely looked like coffee that had been 50/50'd with heavy creamer...but I know I'm blowing it way out of proportion.
I bought a fancy "pressure release tab" radiator cap and leaked some anti-freeze before I put the OEM cap back on and just figured if I was low on coolant it was just because of the stupid cap I bought (and returned).
I attached a picture of coolant I just siphoned next to fresh/clean coolant I was about to add.
ANY insight other than paying $2,000 for a head gasket repair?
Saw *some* white "smoke" in my exhaust...but not an alarming amount (not enough to see behind me when cruising down the road). Only ever noticed it on/at start up standing behind the car (never really checked after the car was actually warmed up).
Bought the car 3k+ miles ago, got an oil change ASAP. The previous owner had it for 2 years but was always out of town so he only drove it ~2k miles. Figuring it had been over a year since the oil was changed, I only kept the oil for about 1,700 miles and did another change. The oil came out light, which I had never seen, but I had also never changed my oil after only 1,700. Thinking back I feel like it looked slightly milky, but I was attributing anything out of the ordinary to the fact that I had changed it way before 3k miles. My imagination is running wild with paranoia and I feel like it definitely looked like coffee that had been 50/50'd with heavy creamer...but I know I'm blowing it way out of proportion.
I bought a fancy "pressure release tab" radiator cap and leaked some anti-freeze before I put the OEM cap back on and just figured if I was low on coolant it was just because of the stupid cap I bought (and returned).
I attached a picture of coolant I just siphoned next to fresh/clean coolant I was about to add.
ANY insight other than paying $2,000 for a head gasket repair?
09-17-2014, 05:29 PM
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Compression test and then a leak down test...if it makes you feel better I'm fixing my HG...**** happens
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09-17-2014, 05:41 PM
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god doesn't get involved with blown head gaskets
Thought I was smelling some exhaust in the cabin, but I've been bottoming out on my driveway regularly and thought my Y-pipe was busted.
Saw *some* white "smoke" in my exhaust...but not an alarming amount (not enough to see behind me when cruising down the road). Only ever noticed it on/at start up standing behind the car (never really checked after the car was actually warmed up).
Bought the car 3k+ miles ago, got an oil change ASAP. The previous owner had it for 2 years but was always out of town so he only drove it ~2k miles. Figuring it had been over a year since the oil was changed, I only kept the oil for about 1,700 miles and did another change. The oil came out light, which I had never seen, but I had also never changed my oil after only 1,700. Thinking back I feel like it looked slightly milky, but I was attributing anything out of the ordinary to the fact that I had changed it way before 3k miles. My imagination is running wild with paranoia and I feel like it definitely looked like coffee that had been 50/50'd with heavy creamer...but I know I'm blowing it way out of proportion.
I bought a fancy "pressure release tab" radiator cap and leaked some anti-freeze before I put the OEM cap back on and just figured if I was low on coolant it was just because of the stupid cap I bought (and returned).
I attached a picture of coolant I just siphoned next to fresh/clean coolant I was about to add.
ANY insight other than paying $2,000 for a head gasket repair?
Saw *some* white "smoke" in my exhaust...but not an alarming amount (not enough to see behind me when cruising down the road). Only ever noticed it on/at start up standing behind the car (never really checked after the car was actually warmed up).
Bought the car 3k+ miles ago, got an oil change ASAP. The previous owner had it for 2 years but was always out of town so he only drove it ~2k miles. Figuring it had been over a year since the oil was changed, I only kept the oil for about 1,700 miles and did another change. The oil came out light, which I had never seen, but I had also never changed my oil after only 1,700. Thinking back I feel like it looked slightly milky, but I was attributing anything out of the ordinary to the fact that I had changed it way before 3k miles. My imagination is running wild with paranoia and I feel like it definitely looked like coffee that had been 50/50'd with heavy creamer...but I know I'm blowing it way out of proportion.
I bought a fancy "pressure release tab" radiator cap and leaked some anti-freeze before I put the OEM cap back on and just figured if I was low on coolant it was just because of the stupid cap I bought (and returned).
I attached a picture of coolant I just siphoned next to fresh/clean coolant I was about to add.
ANY insight other than paying $2,000 for a head gasket repair?
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