How to be sure . . . . ? ?

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Re: How to be sure . . . . ? ?

Post by Shoppinit » Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:43 am

JC is making a lot of sense. It's a quick job to do a compression test, and probably worth a try.

My Golf has a blown head gasket (or cracked head) at the moment and it makes clouds of white smoke on acceleration, but not under other conditions, and I'm pretty sure its turbo is OK, so it's definitely worth checking the heads while you're at it. Might be worth getting a kit to check for contamination in the coolant using a contamination testing kit. This'll tell you if you've got combustion gasses in the coolant.

You're not using water injection are you? ;)
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Re: How to be sure . . . . ? ?

Post by vhv5hss » Sun Apr 17, 2011 1:05 pm

Okay, Fooking heck. Another Earthquake here last night and although MUCH smaller at only 5.3 still have more damage and more smelly mud oozing up through the ground. Had arranged to drop engine this week but now my plans (along with everybody elses) on hold once again by mother nature as workshop has been barricaded and most likely condemed.

I gotta say, am getting pretty darn tired of this . . . . . . .

Anyway, will reschedule and keep you blokes posted. Appreciate the help thus far.
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Re: How to be sure . . . . ? ?

Post by JCviggen » Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:30 pm

Not much luck :(

After all this consider that you should probably have years of good luck to compensate!
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