Hello, Just went and bought a bottle of sodium silicate hoping this will temporally fix my problem. I think my head gasket is jacked, between cly 2 and 3.
the other day I stuffed it into 2nd gear trying to hit 4th gear going about 80mph. yeah it sucked, must have been the 105 degree weather that day. my new compression is 172-165-155-166 car over heats up hills now and runs like its a d16. This is an h22a4, remember the a4's have real low compression 9.8:1 and no my compression is not supposed to be 220 across, keep the BS to yourself, im really stressed and need opinions.
What do you think about using Silicate. I plan to rebuild later, will this silicate effect anything in the long run? what are some fact about using this sodium silicate? if it works about how long do you think it will last?

Thanks HT


Modified by THC07 at 11:55 AM 7/7/2007

 

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If you want to try something like that, I'd suggest going with an actual block sealer product, as the formulations normally contain additional ingredients intended for this specific application.