Low coolant?
Low coolant?
I keep haveing to add anti freeze to my car and I never see anything leaking. Today I pressure tested it and found that it wasn't looseing air but it was adding air. Could this be a blown head gasket?
>>Today I pressure tested it and found that it wasn't looseing air but it was adding air.
It's not clear what you're saying. Are you referring to using a compression test gauge and the reading is increasing?
Irregardless, I wanted to add that yes...most times you get cooling/oil mixing when a gasket blows or develop a head or block crack, but it's not ALWAYS the case....
It comes down to what part of the gasket gives up - My Silverado blew the gasket between the exhaust port and coolant jacket. It never leaked, much like yours, but would 'burn off' the coolant and push it out with the rest of the exhaust gases....
It would also 'bubble' in my radiator and eventually blew the radiator tank seals, since it was also pushing hot exhaust gas into the cooling system...
HTH....
It's not clear what you're saying. Are you referring to using a compression test gauge and the reading is increasing?
Irregardless, I wanted to add that yes...most times you get cooling/oil mixing when a gasket blows or develop a head or block crack, but it's not ALWAYS the case....
It comes down to what part of the gasket gives up - My Silverado blew the gasket between the exhaust port and coolant jacket. It never leaked, much like yours, but would 'burn off' the coolant and push it out with the rest of the exhaust gases....
It would also 'bubble' in my radiator and eventually blew the radiator tank seals, since it was also pushing hot exhaust gas into the cooling system...
HTH....
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