Some years ago a friend of mine had a Toyota Corolla that had a very small head
gasket leak-it just leaked coolant into one combustion chamber, nothing else-no
water in the oil or anything like that. He drove it for a few thousand miles
that way and then asked if I could replace the head gasket for him. When I
opened up the engine I found that there was substantial damage to the
combustion chamber. It appears that anti-freeze eats up the inside of an
aluminum combustion chamber. I had never seen this before, but no doubt-the
cylinder head had to be replaced. Evidentally burning anti-freeze does
something bad to aluminum.
Jan
Victor Hughes <v.hughes@student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
> Tim
I concur with the other responses - blown head gasket - the only thing I'd
add - fix it fast, water in your oil (which may eventually happen even if
not yet) doesn't lubricate well - I ran my big end bearings after blowing a
head gasket.
Vic
Tim Wilkinson wrote:
> I've had a problem develop over the past 2-3 weeks where the main
> symptom seems to be a lot of water disappearing from the radiator. It's
> 'drinking' almost 1.5 litres of water approx every 50 miles and since it
> is not overheating or overflowing from the radiator cap, it has be going
> somewhere else. Another couple of symptoms are rough starting - sounds
> like it's firing on only 3 cylinders for the first 30 seconds, and if
> I'm not paranoid, what appears to be steam coming from the exhaust when
> the engine is cold.
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