Head Light Guard
Blown head Gasket or head.../ olds cutlass?
have a 94 olds cutlass supreme v6 109k miles i bought for my son from a relative. I flush and filled the radiator myself and refilled it. It never ran hot,overheated or anything but a light came on saying it was low on coolant. I let it cool and refilled but it was barely low.I took the car to a service station to have an inspection before handing it over to my son and this is what they said....
on paperwork.."Internal problem,constant air coming out. Not getting hot but constant fluid being forced back"
He told me the "gauge" they used show gas buidup and it was inconclusive but probably carbon monoxide buildup from a very small head gasket or blown head .He told me to monitor it ,dont drive it far or let it overheat.
Any advice or opinions? It does drive great and runs great.Kinda caught me off guard with this news.Thanks
BTW its 95 degrees here,very humid and its not overheating even when just sitting in driveway for 20 minutes
It is entirely possible you have a pinhole head gasket leak between a cylinder and a water jacket, Engine compression forces pressure into the coolant passages. The guage they use tests cooling system pressure, it is not a detector in the sense that they can tell you what the pressure might be caused from.You can do a compression test, but many times in a case like this you may not see significant results. instead try a reverse pressure test, you will need a coolant pressure tester and an engine compression test guage. Connect the engine compression guage to a cylinder, (one at a time until you test all six) then pressurize the cooling system. a leak will be evident if the engine compression guage starts reading pressure.
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