How To Tell If Your Head Gasket Has Gone?

1. How To Tell If Your Head Gasket Has Gone?

2. If you think that your head gasket has gone there are various things you can check for yourself without taking the car to a mechanic. At a wild guess the first thing to alert you to the problem would be the car overheating, this should not happen and when of the most common causes is the head gasket.

3. So your car has overheated, the next thing to do would be to check the mirrors to see if you have a lot of white smoke coming out of the exhaust. If so it seems highly likely the head gasket has failed.

4. If the car still has water but it is like a mud coloured sludge or black this could also suggest that your head gasket has failed. Check the oil filler cap if there is a white creamy substance under there that looks like egg mayo that is a common sign of water and oil mixing, which would be a head gasket issue. The pipes from the radiator will always pressurize if they head gasket has gone, they will feel rock hard.

5. If after you check for all of these you could go to the mechanics local to you and ask them to perform a pressure test or a sniffer test. This will tell you for certain with the head has gone or not.

6. If the car is not economical to repair it costs too much money you have a few options to you. You could try to sell your car for spares or repairs to someone from the general public, you could sell it to a motor trader who will repair it and resell it or you could scrap it.

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