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Headgasket help
Just found out the head gasket is gone on my s14a. Its pissing coolant from the front on top of water pump.
Anyone know any good company that can check the head in Surrey area? Also what's the best head gasket to go for? I'll be doing water pump, timing chain, and oil pump as well wile it's open. Any help appreciated thanks.
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Can you post a video of the leak? if its coming out from above the water pump its most likely just the pump gasket. Your Head gasket is probably fine...
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As above the water pump can be removed and sealed without touching the head gasket. If you do end up replacing the headgasket you need to match the thickness with any amount of machine work you have done to the head/block in order to keep the compression ratio correct.
I’ve used cosworth and tomei gaskets and both have been good
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OK so I thought I'd bleed system again. Checked compression again and it's 135 exact on all 4 cylinders, did notice spark plugs tips to be bright yellow. Also I've notice a hiss from Rad cap and I dunno if Rad cap is supposed to do this. I've attached a video. Also temp doesn't go on red anymore but sits about 2mm under the red. And bubbles from expantion tank again. Head gasket is a cosworth metal gasket and no symptoms of gasket failure. Water pump has been checked and everything is at it should. This is really a head akehttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2bd7f68762.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...474927b88f.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...97fadeb40e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0f3d21d7ec.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6887601c5f.jpghttp://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/607b25da...417-WA0001.mp4
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you could do a 'sniff test' to see if you have combustion gasses in the coolant.