Re: help!! Possible Head gasket....

["Corey Muscavitz" <skyrocco16v@prodigy.net>]

is it possible that the radiator is plugged/restricted?  if it was a head
gasket you would see water in the oil.  do you know if there is H2O in the
oil?  you will be able to tell by the oil looking muddy or chocolatey.  is
the oil level up at all?  umm....  lets see here, if it is a head gasket
that is bad, and there is water in the oil, and it's been driven more than
50 or so miles, you should probably look into a bottom end rebuild as well,
because anti-freeze will eat away at the crank and connecting rod bearrings.
i think thats about all i can do for ya...
HTH!
Corey
88 16v
----- Original Message -----
From: Randy Martinez <howlinmonkey16v@yahoo.com>
To: <aaron@makuta.com>; 'scirocco' <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 4:55 PM
Subject: help!! Possible Head gasket....


>
> Ok so heres the deal, my baby is overheating when running at high speeds/
> high compresion. simple enough. When at lower speeds and cruising around
> town she stays fine. At first I thought it was fan problems, relay or
> something, but after jumping it on at high and then driving it on the
> highway the temp shot up again, and cooled off once i hit the side
> streets. Why do I think it is the head gasket, well there is a new low
> temp thermo, a new lo temp fan switch and  new relay can't be any of that,
> and last but not least the upper radiator hose gets very very hard after
> running the car on the high way, thus indicating a small leak in the
> gasket causing comression build up. PLEAS TELL ME I AM CRAZY and that it
> is something stupid that i have over looked.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer.> --
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> Randy
> 87 2.0l 16v Rice Eater
> 89 8v Gti (sold for Rocco)
> Teaneck, NJ
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