4dek

its a boosted d16 and its losing coolant but i dont see any leaks???someone help me pls....

H22Luda720

Is the turbo water cooled?

Do you see white smoke coming out of the exaust?

Did you read the plugs?

4dek

nope turbo isnt watercooled. will check the plugs tomorrow but what should i look for?

H22Luda720

Start with pulling them out and see if one is different than the rest.

FERIO916

i have that same problem im running a greddy turbo on my d16y8 and have a coolant leak but dont know where its coming from and mine blows smoke out of the exhaust by checking the plugs and finding one that is different what does this mean ? i know i am running NGK civic HX plugs cause its a colder plug ????????????

H22Luda720

Normally your plugs will have some carbon build-up on them, if one cylinder is burning coolant it will have a "steam cleaning" effect on that plug. So just make sure they look the same across the board.

4dek

so how will a plug look like if coolant is leaking internally?

yakuza

If the plug is being exposed to coolant it will either have no or minimal carbon residue on it or would have kind of white colourish.

H22Luda720

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Also check you oil level, make sure its not overfull, could be mixing

jspeedy

I had the same prob for a year. My oil looked more and more strange as time went on. I did not notice any smoke but the end result was I had coolant mixingw/oil due to my block deck not being straight from a previous blown head gasket.

neoc03

Hoping it's not, but it sound very likely to be a headgasket. They are pretty easy to do on Hondas. Especially the SOHC motors.

muasboi

i'm also running the G-ready kit

for the longest time i was losing coolant too. just little by little though, nothing majorly drastic. i looked over my coolant lines, and found the one by the intake mani leaking (prob only under boost). anyways it just needs a new clamp.

but maybe check your lines too, maybe you have a similiar issue.

4dek

ok i think its my head gasket cause i checked the plugs before and i noticed that cyl 1 plug looked like spankin brand new and the rest have a slight brown tint on it so i think thats what it is. maybe arp head studs would solve my problem. will it be ok to run my car for about 5 months without fixing this? the leak isnt really that bad, i only add coolant every week about 1 cup

muasboi

yes, just don't boost. you should be fine.