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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: beechymonza on 29 April 2009, 18:05
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i think my head gasket has gone aarrgggghh, creamy liquid in header tank, how hard is it 2 fix, an what kinda price am i facin :cry: :cry:
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Check the oil cooler isn't broke first.
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some one else said that 2 me, i changed that 2 years ago though, but he told me 2 bypass oil cooler with copper pipe in both water pipes 2 see if its any better
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Sounds like a good idea in the short term, should rule it out.
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could it be the head gasket though, or is this uncommon 2 go
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Its a headgasket, its not a headgasket, its a headgasket, its not a headgasket ...
Compression test it already - everything else on it own is completely inconclusive.
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an this comp0ression test will tell me the answer i am looking for, cause i didnt wanna mess about with other stuff, i just wanted 2 get head gasket done straight away,
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well on the bounus side the head gasket is a piece of piss to do on the 16v.
chould be ether water cooler or the headgasket so unless the compression test shoults head gasket. id wack a diffrent oil cooler on it and see if that makes any differance. if not few more hours and do the head gasket
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well on the bounus side the head gasket is a piece of piss to do on the 16v.
Show off. :smiley:
Easy if you can get the exhaust to bits, or slide it through the subframe. It took me the best part of a day to do this bit alone.
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right, there is a oil cooler in scrappy, im gonna rob that 2morrow, cause this all started just after i fitted a new seal; in the oil cooler last month, as it was pissin out oil, now it is in my water system, so im hopin its the oil cooler :angry: :angry:
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just got oil cooler from scrappy, once i fitted it whats the best way 2 get all mucjy creamy water out system, can i use household detergent like washin tablets :rolleyes:
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All you can do is flush through with plain water, I would not fit a s/h one myself but the choic is yours.
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so far so good, put oil cooler on and seems the water is not milkin up now, but water still gettin very hot, so gonna lamp a new thermostat on, an hopefully i will be able 2 go 2 the golf show on sat up nottingham :laugh: :laugh:
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worth checking your stat before you fit it. had my coolant system apart yesterday and the stat decided that it wouldn't work. ended up haveing to take the pas pump off again and change it, am in a propper pissy with car over that
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If it was your head gasket, then a compression test would not necesarily indicate anything. It depends on where the failure is. If it's between an oil gallery and the water jacket, then your compressions will not be affected. If the failure is between the water jacket or oil gallery and a combustion chamber, then you will get a low compression on the affected cylinder. If the failure is between two cylinders, then you will have low compressions on both affected cylinders.
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i think its sorted now, not over heatin or nothin an flushed it as well as i could 2 get oil out water system, i was gonna start thinkin about gettin head gasket done before my mate said it might be oil cooler, onliy changed oil cooler 2 years ago aswell, bloody pattern part from euro parts :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:
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half a cup of bio washin powder in the header tank will clean the oil out. i drain the system flush it with a hosepipe then fill with plain water + bio powder, run it till the stat opens then allow it to cool. drain and flush again, repeat till all the oil is gone. refill with antifreeze/water mix and away ya go.