Ok so if anyone could help me out here it would be appreciated....
My car recently started blowing cold air through the heater, so after checking the coolant the level was a bit low, I topped up the coolant approx 1.5 litres and the heaters started working ok again .... At no point did the temp gauge rise above 90•c, the next day I searched for leaks and no leaks could be seen anywhere.... Apart from around the header tank ... I topped it up again to the fill line when cold and drove the car pretty hard for a few miles and after parking up there was a trail down my street .... Around the filler cap was wet
Tonight I carefully removed the spanny cap and ran the car
When ticking over the coolant (mainly water now) is re circulating but frothy
When revving the car with cap off the re circulating coolant is frothy and as soon as the revs drop the bottle overflows a small amount with very frothy water
Now I'm fairly certain that the head gasket needs replacing as even when car is stone cold there's enough pressure to spill a small amount of coolant out.....
Has anyone managed to just get away with head gasket / bolts to fix similar problems ?
I have also heard about people going to remove the head to find loose head bolts probably causing the gasket to blow in the first place .....
I didn't really want to skim the head if I could see obviously on the gasket face a blow past mark or finding slightly loose bolts .... and I really don't want to spend another £80 quid +vat for the head skim on top of the price of all the other parts I'm going to have to replace
Forgot to add there is no oil in water and vice versa just some pressure in the water
My car recently started blowing cold air through the heater, so after checking the coolant the level was a bit low, I topped up the coolant approx 1.5 litres and the heaters started working ok again .... At no point did the temp gauge rise above 90•c, the next day I searched for leaks and no leaks could be seen anywhere.... Apart from around the header tank ... I topped it up again to the fill line when cold and drove the car pretty hard for a few miles and after parking up there was a trail down my street .... Around the filler cap was wet
Tonight I carefully removed the spanny cap and ran the car
When ticking over the coolant (mainly water now) is re circulating but frothy
When revving the car with cap off the re circulating coolant is frothy and as soon as the revs drop the bottle overflows a small amount with very frothy water
Now I'm fairly certain that the head gasket needs replacing as even when car is stone cold there's enough pressure to spill a small amount of coolant out.....
Has anyone managed to just get away with head gasket / bolts to fix similar problems ?
I have also heard about people going to remove the head to find loose head bolts probably causing the gasket to blow in the first place .....
I didn't really want to skim the head if I could see obviously on the gasket face a blow past mark or finding slightly loose bolts .... and I really don't want to spend another £80 quid +vat for the head skim on top of the price of all the other parts I'm going to have to replace
Forgot to add there is no oil in water and vice versa just some pressure in the water