Originally Posted by
17-APG
There is a crack but only a small one and only where the male/male union screws into the head, the head is not cracked any other place. Is it not possible to possibly weld it or something. Not sure if the guy above is joking about using silicone. Car has only 70,000 miles and is running sweet. Last thing I want to do is to have to remove the head
But if it's cracked through to the where the high pressure oil is pumped to the turbo it's going to spray rather hot oil all over your engine bay, I'm sure I don't need to tell you that's a bad thing!
Tring to Tig weld with the head on the car will be very hard plus you are going to have oil contamination which will lead to a horrible weld which may not seal.
You're going to have to bite the bullet and remove the head, tring to bodge it will probably lead to a fire!
Rich