FWIW, 5 years ago, I had a crack between the valves on one of the heads of my '84 7 passenger that was bad enough to put combustion gasses into the coolant. I drove it over 1,300 miles that way, in order to get it home, by cracking the bleeder screw in the radiator so that excessive pressure wouldn't build up. Of course, I was losing coolant at the same time so I had to pull over and add water, every 30 miles, in order to do this. Using that method, it never overheated. Anyway, I never had the white smoke talked about here. When I did a compression test, the bad one (where the crack in the head was) wouldn't come up to pressure and wouldn't hold pressure for taking a reading. After I removed the heads, I had them pressure tested at a machine shop (it cost me $35.00 US per head) and, as expected, that one failed so I replaced the one head and all has been good since. Mike
Wesley Pegden wrote: > Geo, > Did blowing the head gasket leave your compression normal? > Thanks, > Wes > > > Geo & Kathleen Hahn wrote: >> FWIW -- whenever I've had a blown head gasket with a subsequent >> internal coolant leak I've been able to smell the coolant in the >> exhaust... even when the leak wasn't producing notable white clouds. >> >> Geo >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wesley Pegden" <wes@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU> >> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> >> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 2:20 PM >> Subject: Re: White smoke? (UPDATE) >> >> >>> ...Still has all the symptoms as before. Out of the tailpipe, apart >>> from >>> white smoke I see now that it's dripping some grayish liquid---what I >>> might guess to be a mixture of coolant with oil?. >> > |
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