highrollers23

sunday my car started overheating figured it was thermostat so took it out, still over heated replaced radiator cap and resorvoir helped for a lil bit but keep shooting coolent out of reservoir very high pressure any body got ideas?

Former User

Is there white smoke in the exhaust? Oil in the coolant or coolant in the oil?

highrollers23

there was white smoke but it doesnt look like head gasket oil is fine and fresh no smell or sign of coolent

Former User

The high pressure build up in the cooling system and the white smoke in the exhaust suggest a blown head gasket. You may want to compression test the cylinders and do a cylinder leak down test.

highrollers23

well some times it burns oil, but if its the headgaket wouldnt there be coolent wit oil i had a blown headgasket b4 on a single cam

Former User

Not always. This is surely a sign of a blown head gasket when you find it, but its absence does not exclude a blown head gasket.

Psychoteen101

Remove you spark plugs and do a coolant system pressure test. See if it holds pressure. If not, find out if its leaking from the cylinders or from another area

highrollers23

ok so turns out to be head gasket, now anybody ever done a head gasket on b16? ive done single cam but dohc has more to it