just wanted to know some ways to tell ig its blown or not if u could help with that nad maybe tell me how hard it would be to change it if it is and help me with steps on how to change it thanks

 

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is your temp gauge too high? oil in your coolant? strange smoke from tailpipe?

 

no i dont see any wrong smoke comming from my tail pipe i and the oil does not look milky but the person i bout the car of of his friend said that the head gasket was leaking

 

just because they said the hg is leaking doesnt mean it is. by looks, do you think it is leaking? if so is it coolant? or oil? from where?

 

no my temp gage is not to high and it does not look like there is any coolent in the oil it not milky looking the kid i bout the car off of i ran into his friend and he told me that his friend had one just like it and it had a leaking head gasket the kid said he did a comprsion test on it for him could a blown head gasket make the car run rough

 

well i have changed alot of stuff and to think bout it my friend nick did tell me that my car was smoking but he just said it was burning oil so i dont know how could i check from the exulst way it the gasket is blown

 

if you're not having problems, I wouldn't worry about it. I had a leaking gasket in my civic and I would have to add a bit of water to the radiator from time to time because it would push all of the water out of the radiator and into the overflow tank. Until this became a frequent event and I started seeing oil in the coolant and whitish smoke coming out of the exhaust, I didn't change it out.

a little leak probably won't throw your compression numbers off the chart or anything, or even make it run rough. You'll start to notice things though like:

* your overflow tank constantly filling up (and therefore your radiator will run low and your engine will overheat)
* "milky" looking oil in the engine (often easily seen on bottom of oil cap)
* oil in the coolant
* air bubbles continuously surfacing in radiator
* white steam emitted from exhaust.

If you aren't experiencing any symptoms, then you aren't having any problems! I wouldn't worry about it until you start to see bad things happening, and a small leak even probably wouldn't contribute to rough running when you aren't seeing symptoms.