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DaviesEB

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Head Gasket
« on: 12 June 2009, 13:15:41 »
How do you know your head gasket is gone.

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Re: Head Gasket
« Reply #1 on: 12 June 2009, 13:23:31 »
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1209123017

any unexplained coolant loss?

A lot of the time the only definitive way to find out is heads off  :(
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Re: Head Gasket
« Reply #2 on: 12 June 2009, 18:13:20 »
as suggested , water loss , oil mixed with water or water with oil , loss of perforamce, but to suggest that you take the heads off to tell is daft, you carry out cylinder pressure tests, coolant system pressure tests ,as soon as you remove the heads you ruin the gaskets anyway so methodical investegation is the way to tackle this or any task
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Re: Head Gasket
« Reply #3 on: 12 June 2009, 18:29:43 »
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as suggested , water loss , oil mixed with water or water with oil , loss of perforamce, but to suggest that you take the heads off to tell is daft, you carry out cylinder pressure tests, coolant system pressure tests ,as soon as you remove the heads you ruin the gaskets anyway so methodical investegation is the way to tackle this or any task


You've misunderstood....
My point was sometimes on omegas....every test shows HG should be ok, but there is still an unexplained loss which turns out to be HG.

Still lots of things to check 1st, I didn't mean take the heads off just to check.
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