How To Tell If Your Head Gasket Has Gone?

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How To Tell If Your Head Gasket Has Gone?
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If you think that your head gasket has gone there
are various things you can check for yourself
without taking the car to a mechanic. At a wild
guess the first thing to alert you to the problem
would be the car overheating, this should not
happen and when of the most common causes is the
head gasket.
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• So your car has overheated, the next thing to do
  would be to check the mirrors to see if you have
  a lot of white smoke coming out of the exhaust.
  If so it seems highly likely the head gasket has
  failed.

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If the car still has water but it is like a mud
coloured sludge or black this could also suggest
that your head gasket has failed.
Check the oil filler cap if there is a white
creamy substance under there that looks like egg
mayo that is a common sign of water and oil
mixing, which would be a head gasket issue.
The pipes from the radiator will always
pressurize if they head gasket has gone, they
will feel rock hard.
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• If after you check for all of these you could go
  to the mechanics local to you and ask them to
  perform a pressure test or a sniffer test. This
  will tell you for certain with the head has gone
  or not.

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• If the car is not economical to repair it costs
  too much money you have a few options to you. You
  could try to sell your car for spares or repairs
  to someone from the general public, you could
  sell it to a motor trader who will repair it and
  resell it or you could scrap it.

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