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NegativeOne13 said:
My only question is how did you not smell it or see the smoke? Or even the temp gauge on the dash?
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not every head gasket fails by eating coolant and burning it out the tail pipes. like in my case there was no leaks at all or sweet burning smell or steam out my tail pipes. it would push the coolant out the rad cap and over flow the tank. and mine ran cool too. never higher then the 1/2 way mark on a regal dash.
 


Scottydoggs said:
not every head gasket fails by eating coolant and burning it out the tail pipes. like in my case there was no leaks at all or sweet burning smell or steam out my tail pipes. it would push the coolant out the rad cap and over flow the tank. and mine ran cool too. never higher then the 1/2 way mark on a regal dash.
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xDonny said:
I was driving home the other day and my rad hose popped off the top of the radiator, pissed coolant everywhere, I didn't notice until my car started making a ticking noise and shut off completely about 1/2 KM later.

I opened the hood to billowing white smoke and the smell of burning coolant, after realizing what happend I had an "oh ****" moment
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That is what I was referring to.
 
I once (flame proof suit on) had a stang that I tossed parts together to have a 5.0. Anyhow.. running great and poof one day smoking out the pipes. No coolant loss. Compression test showed the gasket blew between two cylinders. So they were swapping spit.
 
02NavyBlue said:
Just putting this out there, we got a grand prix in at work that the same thing happened, coolant leaked out and they overheated it until, like your case, it wouldn't go any further. We tore it down to the block and saw little to no signs of a gasket failure, but continued with the job. New head, and intake gaskets, still the same issue, misfire on cyl 4 and 6, and running very rough at idle. Smooths out at higher rpm's though. After the whole job, the same problem occurred. A compression test discovered little to no compression on cyl 6 and very low on 4, and not even enough on all others. It seems overheating the motor til it just won't move any further ends in melted rings.

Oh and it also had a bunch of air blowing into the overflow tank, but the cooling system only had like a quart of drain-able coolant, and the cap was defective.
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The way my luck is going, that will be the case.. Somebody is selling a GP with ~100,000km and a new transmission for $400 I might have to borrow some cash from someone to get it
 


the 41 bucks for shipping kills the deal for me. and they are kinda no name brand.

id stick with felpro or delco gaskets myself.
 
Yeah i'd stick with felpro. That's what I used. I think I bought mine from Rockauto. It was a little over $110-115 with shipping I believe.
 
Did you ever do a compression test? Do that first, that way you can confirm an issue and if it isnt the gasket, or the heads, then you know the piston rings are melted or stuck.
 


luckyg817 said:
Yeah i'd stick with felpro. That's what I used. I think I bought mine from Rockauto. It was a little over $110-115 with shipping I believe.
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I priced everything out, all the gaskets and bolts with the Delco intake gaskets was $160.48 shipped to my door.

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Slick2500 said:
I priced everything out, all the gaskets and bolts with the Delco intake gaskets was $160.48 shipped to my door.

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I forgot to buy the head bolts when I ordered the kit and I went with plastic instead of the metal intake gaskets. Plus this was around October or November when I fixed them so don't remember the exact price. Oh and I live in TX.
 


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