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Author My headgasket has fooked
Mike GSi
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1st Apr 07 at 09:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
on the way home from work on friday my car randomly started running like shite and making a horrible noise.

i got it home and done a compression test and there was nothing from the 3rd cylender.

so i thought that my cambelt had slipped a tooth or two. after checking the cambelt i found out that it was nice and tight and no sign of damage! so im really confused.

also the timing was spot on so off comes the head and this is what i saw





have any of you ever seen or heard pf this hapening before?
Rachel H
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1st Apr 07 at 09:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Err, yes
Adam_B
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1st Apr 07 at 09:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
is this a trick question.....
Mike GSi
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1st Apr 07 at 09:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
its not the normal way tho rachel. normally when a head gasket goes the oil mixes with the water by getting into the water cooling pockets around the head!

as you can see the gap in my gasket is from piston to piston!
Adam_B
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1st Apr 07 at 09:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
thats quite normal mate.
Mike GSi
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1st Apr 07 at 09:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
oh well the vauxhall dealers down the road seem to think its very rare! they wre convinced that id bent a valve
Andy Stocker
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Well thats one dealer to avoid from now on
Rachel H
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1st Apr 07 at 09:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Thats exactly how the head gasket on our GSi had gone.

That Vauxhall garage need to be avoided from this day forward.
Mike GSi
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Scotty C
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1st Apr 07 at 10:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Where are your pockets in your pistons?
PaulW
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Happened on my old 8v SPi - its not rare
Mike GSi
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1st Apr 07 at 10:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Monster
Where are your pockets in your pistons?



nah mate they surround the pistons actually in the block not the pistons
Scotty C
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1st Apr 07 at 10:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Eh?

Like this I mean -



Mike GSi
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the 2 grooves in the top and bottom of each piston are so the valves dont collide with the pistons. the water cooling pockets are the wierd shaped holes with water in. the round ones are for your head bolts
Scotty C
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1st Apr 07 at 11:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I know that

But what i'm getting at is, where are your ''grooves''?
Mike GSi
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1st Apr 07 at 11:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
the grooves r on my pistons still in my engine! the pic of the gasket is on my concrete path! hence y u cant see the pistons pal
Scotty C
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1st Apr 07 at 11:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Oooooooooooooh
Ryan_G1
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quote:
Originally posted by mikegsic16xe
the grooves r on my pistons still in my engine! the pic of the gasket is on my concrete path! hence y u cant see the pistons pal


Jimmeh
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1st Apr 07 at 12:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Lmao!

That pic was confusing me aswell! Some weird looking pistons
Mike GSi
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1st Apr 07 at 12:17   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
h haha sorry guys bad pics lmao
Mike GSi
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1st Apr 07 at 16:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
got my outside lighting sorted so i can fix my car tomorrow. just hope the wind etc calms down

 
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