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General Information => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: shegel on March 18, 2008, 08:26:10 am

Title: whats the deal
Post by: shegel on March 18, 2008, 08:26:10 am

im suspecting a bad hg because of a little oil in the coolant...but it starts up fine and i drive it 100 miles a day with no issues. other than a bad shake that i need to figure out too. my question is this. if the headgasket died then wouldnt the car have too low of compression and not run. also woulldnt there be coolant in the oil....?!?!?!?!?!?

Title: whats the deal
Post by: burn_your_money on March 18, 2008, 08:45:51 am

not necessarily. oil/coolant contamination is only a possibility, not a definite. A leak down test will show a bad HG or looking in the coolant reservoir for bubbles with the car running may show a bad headgasket.

It could be the oil cooler leaking or it could be some oil that was trapped in the cooling system and was just freed up by the coolant getting hot.

Title: whats the deal
Post by: shegel on March 18, 2008, 12:20:21 pm

i dont have an oil cooler i dont think. its for the golf in my sig.

Title: whats the deal
Post by: shegel on March 20, 2008, 02:46:43 pm

? :?:  :?:

Title: whats the deal
Post by: Vincent Waldon on March 20, 2008, 05:56:49 pm

Burn's got it... if you need to find a blown head gasket start with a compression test.

Since you mention a bad shake my crystal ball will predict........  bad compression in two adjacent cylinders.  :wink:

Title: whats the deal
Post by: shegel on March 20, 2008, 09:01:34 pm

ok that makes sence. so i guess i will buy a compression tester.... are the ebay ones ok?

Title: whats the deal
Post by: Possum79 on March 22, 2008, 10:36:03 am

If you go on ebay for the tester check out harborfreight.com. A dude on ebay buys them from that site and sells them for more then harborfreight sells them for. I have a harborfreight one just havent used it yet.

Title: whats the deal
Post by: rallydiesel on March 22, 2008, 11:35:46 am

I have used the ebay/harbourfreight ones and they work great.

Title: whats the deal
Post by: Baselyne on April 13, 2008, 01:45:04 pm

anyone got a link to this tools site?

Title: whats the deal
Post by: shegel on April 13, 2008, 03:35:53 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350048177131&_trksid=p2759.l1259

somthing like this

Title: whats the deal
Post by: jtanguay on April 13, 2008, 04:16:42 pm

i bought one like that.  works good.  mostly mechanical so i can't see it being crap

Title: whats the deal
Post by: duffer on April 14, 2008, 12:33:58 pm

Quote from: "rallydiesel"

I have used the ebay/harbourfreight ones and they work great.

How did they ship?
USPS or UPS/Fedex?

I ask because, I'd never
buy anything cross-border
if they only ship UPS.

Too may extra/unexpected
Charges.

Title: whats the deal
Post by: saurkraut on April 14, 2008, 01:28:27 pm

Quote from: "Possum79"

If you go on ebay for the tester check out harborfreight.com. A dude on ebay buys them from that site and sells them for more then harborfreight sells them for. I have a harborfreight one just havent used it yet.

here it is:

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=93644

Title: whats the deal
Post by: Possum79 on April 14, 2008, 05:00:01 pm

The one i bought from harbor freight actually comes with more adapters for the same cost just so you know.