Hy, I had posted earlier that my car was burning lots of oil and I said that I thought it was my piston wrings.. But yesterday I was checking the raidiater fluid and there was oil in my reservoir:eek:. Could that mean I have a bad head gasket and oil is slipping threw the gasket into the raidiater fliud passage, and could that be why my car does not always blow smoke from the rear it happens on an off? PLEASE HELP!!!
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sure sounds a lot like a blown head gasket to me. Do a compression test, and if you have two cylinders next to one another that are down on compression, the head gasket is most likely done.
A compression test will do it, but a leakdown test woudl be even better. A Leakdown test will tell you exactly where you cylinder is leaking. You basically remove all the plugs and test each cylinder at TDC. If you hear bubbling or hissing through your dipstick slot, its the rings. The next cylinder, its the headgasket.
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