I agree with all of the other responses that it's a blown head gasket. My
Series II went through a few of them over the years. I discovered that in
addition to torquing (sp?) the head down properly when it's cold you should
also start up and run the car until it's at operating temperature, shut it
off and carefully re-torque.
Allan McDonald
BC Ministry of Forests
Forest Enterprises Branch
Phone: (250) 387-8945 Fax: (250) 356-6209
Email: Allan.McDonald@gems4.gov.bc.ca
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Wilkinson [mailto:timwilk@magix.com.sg]
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 8:16 AM
To: Alpine List
Subject: Thirsty Radiator
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.
Not having stripped an engine before and hence knowing the internals too
well, is it possible either the waterpump gasket or head gasket have
blown?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Tim
SIV Singapore
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