ok well theres coolant coming out of my DC header...
ive been trying to figure out why the hell the coolant wont stay in the car. today i was cleaning up the engine and after i was done i started it up and i saw a little bit of coolant coming out of the header where it bolts up.

this is trippin me out, can anyone explain whats goin on?

 

bad hg

 

Blown Head gasket.

 

if it was a blown headgasket wouldnt i be stuck stranded somwhere?
i mean i drove it like 2 hours on the highway today and it seemed fine to me.
are u guys sure its the HG?

 

Yep bad head gasket

 

god damn it...thats what i feared.
anyone know where i can get a cheap set of B16A gaskets?
all the ones on ebay are over 100$

 

Majestic Honda parts. Thats where I get all my oem parts from and good prices too.

 

Write-up when working on it!!

 

autozone has cheep ones i kno the ones for a d15 are like 20 bucks just look up the type of car ur moter came in and there ya go

 

its pretty straight forward haha

 

Check your oil, too - I bet it's really full.
I just changed the HG on an old Sunbird. It had a miss at idle but would drive all day until the coolant was gone. Anyway, when I changed the oil, the first quart or so that drained out was coolant.
It was neat - the leaking cylinder had a nice clean shiny piston and chamber and the other 3 were still black.

 

how is the coolant on the top side of the flange if it was the headgasket? thats weird. maybe the head is cracked behind that stud and the coolant weeps through when the aluminum expands and with the pressure. next time you go for a drive take the rad cap off then put it back on but dont turn it till it locks, just put it on and give it a slight turn, this way the system wont pressurize, see if it does it then.

 

that sounds really complicated.
and idk whats goin on, im hearing alot of headgasket answers.
but my neon had a blown headgasket and it would overheat like every 3 minutes. ive been driving my car all day with this and nothings happened.
its actually been doing this for a long time now that i really think about it cuz ive always had to put more coolant in.

 

agreed.. my guess is your radiator cap is leaking, or your overflow pipe is not connected, so when the radiator cap bleeds some pressure, the front of your engine gets a bath.


lucky for you, its a really cheap fix.

 

I would try this and see if it works. Because I dont see how cooland can get on top of the header when the gasket is underneath the header.

 

omg i think u guys just saved my ***.
cuz ive been wondering why my oil wasnt milky or why i wasnt spewing smoke out the DOHC VTEC ***!
yeah my radiator has alot of coolant sittin on it. and my engine is covered in an explosion of coolant. even under my hood has coolant burned onto it

 

this happened to my friends d15 its not to bad to fix

 

buy a new $10 rad cap and go from there

 

if coolents exploded everywhere ima go out on a limb and say its ur rad cap. like crx jimmy said id buy cap first and take it from there

 

You don't see any white smoke? I mean if the coolant is spraying out from the radiator cap to the header, the heat should evaporate the coolant while driving?

 

You can have a bad headgasket and your car can go for ages without overheating, it'll just start using coolant.

 

i got the problem solved ya'll

RADIATOR CAP!!!!
thanks much to crxjimmy and all the guys who chipped in, ur answers have helped me to not freak out when i see coolant everywhere lol.

i bought a new mishimoto half sized radiator so this problem shouldn't occur anymore.