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Oct 20, 2009 | 06:23 PM

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Bad head gasket?

Took off the valve cover and this was on it. What is it? Does this mean the head gasket is done for? Or something worse? =\

Oct 20, 2009 | 07:07 PM

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Re: Bad head gasket?

my vote is the headgasket...WHat a coincidence!!! i have a felpro vtec headgasket for sale! is that a vtec engine?

Oct 20, 2009 | 07:11 PM

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yep...looks like blown head gasket...is it smoking, missing???

Oct 20, 2009 | 07:11 PM

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my vote is the headgasket...WHat a coincidence!!! i have a felpro vtec headgasket for sale! is that a vtec engine?

Yessir. too bad, you're in CA. I kind of need it now. =\

Oct 20, 2009 | 07:12 PM

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yep...looks like blown head gasket...is it smoking, missing???

Wont even start. But it almost turned over once and a cloud of white smoke puffed out.

Oct 20, 2009 | 07:14 PM

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i can ship it, lol. well, you should just go out to an autozone and pick one up. they are pretty cheap and work just as well as oem in my opinion. stop trying to start it!

Oct 20, 2009 | 07:22 PM

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i can ship it, lol. well, you should just go out to an autozone and pick one up. they are pretty cheap and work just as well as oem in my opinion. stop trying to start it!

Haha, I only tried once. After I saw that could of smoke I got curious and yeah...=[ Thanks for the info errrrrbody.