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Re: Blown head gasket???



First check you oil to see if you have water and or coolant in it,if none is 
found open the resivor to the cooling system and take a good whif, if it 
smells like exhuast or fuel it may be the head gasket or a cracked head.

Brian

87 16v
86 8v (parts car)
looking for a white 87 16v or an 85 wolfie



>From: Mark Hausler <mk1scirocco@yahoo.com>
>To: scirocco list <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Blown head gasket???
>Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:38:21 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I think I blew my head gasket last night. Here is what
>happened.
>
>I drive back from dinner late last night and notice my
>idle is running high. Pop the hood and everything
>seems fine. Smells a little like burning rubber but
>not bad at all. This morning the car was hard to start
>and had to keep the revs up just to keep it running.
>Time for a tune I tell myself. I get out to close the
>garage door and pop the hood to see if anything is
>noticable. Nothing strange under the hood. A little
>more white smoke out of the tail pipe but more like
>vapor. I drive off and in my rearview I notice a cloud
>left behind. At the first light I am waiting to turn,
>not much smoke then but when I take off I fill the
>while intersection. FUCK> . OK something is wrong.
>Turn around a go back home. At home the smoke is
>whiteish and smells burnt. Not heavy oil or heavy
>coolent. When I turn the car off  it runs on for a
>second or two.  I had no real power loss.  Does this
>sound like a head gasket?? Is there other things I
>need to replace at the same time if this is what it
>is? My engine only has 50,000 miles on it. Is there
>other side effects to this?
>
>help
>
>thanks
>
>
>
>
>
>=====
>mark hausler
>'81 scirocco s
>'87 GTI 16v
>
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