Headgasket!

[RyanVW]

Bad news... I'm getting quite a bit of back pressure from my cabby and I'm guessing this means headgasket needs doing. How much should I expect to pay for this job? And anyone know any good garages in the north west? Thanks

[yakuza racer]

if your headgasket is blown the first "tell-tale" signs is oil in your water and vice versa, using alot of water just to name the main suspects.

for a headgasket, it is fairly cheap and easy to do on a mk1... 

[RyanVW]

dont think this is headgasket tbh its running well & pressure seems to have eased off recently 

[SoundillusioN]

I can't see any oil in the water and Havnt noticed any gunk under the oil cap but what else could cause such pressure  other than HG?
Thanks, Ryan.

I've had it once on my 1.5 cab.. My symptoms were similar to yours, no oil in water, no loss of water but I discovered I had a problem when a coolant hose burst, looked really old so I replaced it and that blew off!.. turned out I had small crack near a cylinder acrooss to a water channel so the engine was pressurising the system until something gave way!  To be honest it's really not too hard if you take you're time... couldn't recommend anywhere though sorry.  not taken a golf to a garage for a long time.

[RyanVW]

Ahh cheers Shaun. Id like to do it myself but I have no experience in this area so if i screwed something up I'd be stuck. Plus I need my car for work so it needs to be done as quickly as possible really...

[SoundillusioN]

Ahh cheers Shaun. Id like to do it myself but I have no experience in this area so if i screwed something up I'd be stuck. Plus I need my car for work so it needs to be done as quickly as possible really...

Ah, I forget it's a daily. 

[Sam]

You could do your head gasket in a weekend quite easily, you got any mates who are a little more mechanically minded than yourself? Between you you should be able to get it done 

[RyanVW]

You could do your head gasket in a weekend quite easily, you got any mates who are a little more mechanically minded than yourself? Between you you should be able to get it done 

well no mates that i would trust under my bonnet haha but id like to give it a go myself
are there any guides around here?
do i need any special equipment? iv got all the standard tools

Thanks 

[Sam]

What engine is it? Sorry, not to clued up on M1s

[RyanVW]

ummmmm 1.8 with a webber carb