Posted by DiyDave on March 09, 2011 at 05:20:19 from (151.196.181.82):
In Reply to: Headgasket??? posted by dave2 on March 09, 2011 at 03:25:24:
Dave, the critical thing here is coolant loss. If you are losing coolant, externally,there should be some wetness/leak somewhere. If you are consuming fluid, that is worse, because if coolant is leaking into a cylinder, exhaust can also be leaking out, and if the leak is big enough, you can get incompressible fluid into the cyl, and end up with a bent rod. If it was mine, I would run an exhaust gas presence test, on the coolant, and maybe retorque the head bolts. If the test comes back negative for exhaust gasses in the coolant, run her!
Mechanics make mistakes, too, and he might have been playing it safe, too.
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