can someone confirm that this is water as i suspect head gasket failure thanks

 

on a petrol yes...

on a diesel... its vapourised smoke or coolant.

Does it smell sickly sweet?

Alex

 

dunno? had a session at jam sport on sat, jamie said he suspected it was leaking as it was pressurising on high boost

 

yeah i reckon headgasket how longs it been like it any cottage cheese in the oil

 

take a close look at your rad and make sure it ain't beginning to balloon top and

bottom,sure sign!

puddy

 

oil is not creamy. does this mean it could be something other than head gasket?????

 

I dont have a cossie but on my XR i had a problem with my engine stalling. It was spitting white smoke back out of the air filters. I was convinced this was leaking head gasket and changed it - but it wasn't. It turned out to be knackered disbributor and the white smoke was just normal combustion smoke being spat out when the engine stalled.

 

def head gasket by the sounds of it...
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lex

 

sadly that very much sounds like head gasket failure

boost getting into water ways

 

great, all i hope is the head isnt shagged, how much boost can a standard ford head gasket take, my car is running 280bhp on 1 bar boost, can a standard gasket take this as i allready have 1 spare.thanks 4 any advice

 

yup a std gasket will do stage 1 fine...

but time is the issue... as they age they weaken and eventually fail!

alex

 

grp a (think it's a late esc cossie one) is fine for stage 3

 

head gaskets are an unknown entity really, when they go, they go. I'm runnin stg2 on a std head gasket, but no point changing it till it goes....................which will probably be soon