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9th February 2018, 19:48
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Head gasket
Hello guys I’m hoping someone can help, I have a 1.4 desire with sludge in the coolant so suspecting head gasket! I’ve brought a new head gasket kit and (long shot) is there anyone near Bournemouth who could give me a hand changing it as I’m not confident to do it myself!
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11th February 2018, 11:25
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Location: Perth
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Car(s): Peugeot 106 1.1 Turbo
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Originally Posted by Dave2254
Hello guys I’m hoping someone can help, I have a 1.4 desire with sludge in the coolant so suspecting head gasket! I’ve brought a new head gasket kit and (long shot) is there anyone near Bournemouth who could give me a hand changing it as I’m not confident to do it myself!
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How did you come across this? just by chance looking into the radiator cap or is the car overheating?
Head gasket failures aren't that common.
Any pics? Is your oil level dropping?
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11th February 2018, 18:30
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Thanks for your reply, it’s overheating and when I took the top hose off the rad lots of sludge came out!
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11th February 2018, 19:09
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: South Wales
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Car(s): ZX 16v, 205 GTI, 309 Goodwood, 405 MI16.
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its pretty common, the gasket rots out around the oil feed to the head and eventually leaks into the coolant passageways.
its one of the easiest engines ever to do a HG on, get yourself a haynes manual, a HG kit, bolts and a timng belt kit with water pump and crack on.
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11th February 2018, 19:17
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I have thought about it but I’m pretty sure the head will need skimming so would prefer someone who 100% knows what they are doing to help
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11th February 2018, 20:33
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done a couple and they haven't needed skimming to be honest, they use a fibre gasket so are quite forgiving.
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11th February 2018, 21:01
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Ah ok, just brought it and I suspect the last owner has been driving round with the gasket blowing for sometime going on the amount of sludge in the cooling system, do the head bolts need to be tightened in a certain sequence?
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11th February 2018, 22:17
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youtube ,how to
bolt order from the centre working out .to remove in reverse order.
a spot of paint when torqeing up,so you know what you have done.and put a bit of grease under the bolt head
good luck
Last edited by marrygold; 11th February 2018 at 22:24.
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