Re: New 2.0 frags a head gasket...Once again the car puts a gun to my head

["the mad bastard" <the-mad-bastard@home.com>]

> I knew this car couldnt be happy long with a new motor and head. I was
> rotating the tires this weekend when I notice oil dripping down the back
of
> the motor..hmmm. The head is perfectly dry and its puking oil down the
back
> of block...fucking great. So I wiped it down took it for a 30 min drive
and
> it soaked the area again.

    awesome!  so i'm not the only one :)

    i've just come to expect this.  i get a lot of loss.  i actually am
missing one of my valve cover bolts, so when i really get on it, the smell
of oil dropping onto a super-hot header fills the car.  the first couple of
times it happened, i was scared as shit, but now it's like, i dunno,
refreshing...

> Looks like a blown head gasket to me. Well at
> least I got almost 8K miles out the car before it had a major failure. I
> know alot of 16Vs weep oil back here, my 1.8 did till I put a new head
> gasket on it and it stayed dry for 100K miles, but it is not unreasonable
to
> expect it not to leak with a rebuilt block and a brand spankin new head.
> Didnt your 2.0 do this too Craig? Did you get your head gasket from
> Potterman?

    shannon, is your head decked?  mine is, and i'm constantly beating the
snot out of it, so i sorta expect it.  what the hell, a little oil
consumption ain't so bad.  sure, it costs money, but i just pretend it's
real expensive gas or something.

    however, you are making me wonder if i should tear the head off and
replace the head gasket.  i probably should, just to inspect the gear
underneath...

> With new euro bumpers and custom grill and boxes of new parts she is
> sitting in the damn garage where the spoiled bitch belongs. What is it
with
> this/these cars? They have us either maxed out on the bliss meter or ready
> to douse ourselves and them with gasoline and smoke a cigarette? ughhh....

    dude, you slay me.  that is so funny...although true.  love is
blindness, i guess...

jason
the mad bastard


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