head gasket or oil cooler seal ?
07-07-2006, 12:29 PM
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head gasket or oil cooler seal ?
wensday i replaced the AOS seals and the hose that runs from the top of the aos to the j boot hadf been caped off , so put it back stock.
today on my way to work white smoke every where after about 2 minutes of driving, no loss of power so i pull over and look around . i unhook the aos hose to the j boot and let it run for a few minutes, it ran fine and started to heat up just before i got to work , so i pull in and check the coolant ( it was low)
i changed my oil it was cream colored and there was condinsation in the filler neck. there didnt apear to be any oil in the coolant resavor.
when i had my tranny fixed the shop checked the compresion and said it was fine. but they also left six axle bolts loose.
today on my way to work white smoke every where after about 2 minutes of driving, no loss of power so i pull over and look around . i unhook the aos hose to the j boot and let it run for a few minutes, it ran fine and started to heat up just before i got to work , so i pull in and check the coolant ( it was low)
i changed my oil it was cream colored and there was condinsation in the filler neck. there didnt apear to be any oil in the coolant resavor.
when i had my tranny fixed the shop checked the compresion and said it was fine. but they also left six axle bolts loose.
07-07-2006, 12:35 PM
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aos seals,, those are your oil cooler seals right? if you just replace dthem and it wasn't doing this before I would suspect that.
On the other hand, that's what m y blown headgasket did.
On the other hand, that's what m y blown headgasket did.
07-07-2006, 12:44 PM
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Generally:
White smoke on startup, sometimes running on 3 cylinders for the first few seconds.
Overheating
Disappearing coolant
Sometimes a coolant/oil mix or oil/coolant mix.
Low compression -- this is not always the case though, sometimesheadgaskets will be fine until heated or put under load so it's not always a fail safe.
If the car has been overheated much for any good amount of time and it has a lot of miles on it, I would replace the headgasket.
Do the oil cooler seals first though.
White smoke on startup, sometimes running on 3 cylinders for the first few seconds.
Overheating
Disappearing coolant
Sometimes a coolant/oil mix or oil/coolant mix.
Low compression -- this is not always the case though, sometimesheadgaskets will be fine until heated or put under load so it's not always a fail safe.
If the car has been overheated much for any good amount of time and it has a lot of miles on it, I would replace the headgasket.
Do the oil cooler seals first though.
07-10-2006, 05:16 PM
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ok i fulshed the coolant with the machine at work, and changed the oil.
and today i took it to a porsche shop to have the oil cooler seal and gasket replaced.
i hope that will fix it, is there like a certian car god i can pray to or somthing? because i really cant aford 1,300 bucks to get the head gasket replaced.
ive already put in around 5 gs . i guess i have to keep it because i dont think it will sell for that much
and today i took it to a porsche shop to have the oil cooler seal and gasket replaced.
i hope that will fix it, is there like a certian car god i can pray to or somthing? because i really cant aford 1,300 bucks to get the head gasket replaced.
ive already put in around 5 gs . i guess i have to keep it because i dont think it will sell for that much
