John
know how you felt!!
I had spent months rebuilding my mk3 engine, started
it up, and 5 minutes later it had emptied the radiator
into the sump!!!
my head gasket was the same type as yours....
colin
--- John Hobson <goalie_john@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I
just pulled the head and it is the head gasket
> that had gone, in quite
> a major way! Take a look here:
>
>
http://www.geocities.com/goalie_john/head_gasket/headgasket.html
>
> It was petrol on the spark plugs and not oil as I
> first thought.
>
> I think I will first see if I can get the supplier
> to send me a new
> gasket free of charge, I will also get new studs,
> nuts and washers.
>
> I'll also try and find a flat surface to test if the
> head is warped, and
> if so get it skimmed.
>
> cheers everyone for all your help, it all seems like
> a bit of a storm in
> a teacup now considering it's something so minor,
> but at the time I
> thought it was something very major that had gone
> wrong, glad I've been
> proved wrong.
>
> cheers
> John
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