Hi guys, just brought a 1.8 zvh fitted it all and she smokes, i mean smokes bad white smoke, i took spark plug 1 out and its pure steam coming from it, take the rest of the plugs out nothing, funny enough its not firing on number 1 either, my question is more can you confirm that this is head gasket problems?

You win some you lose some i suppose!

Engine sounds sweet apart from that

 

I think the problem was chosing a ZVH, and not going full Zetec.

 

ok, this moment in time im rebuilding my cvh so i brought this as a stop gap, back to the question do you rekon its head gasket

 

sounds like headgasket to me mate, if there is white smoke out the back and steam in the cylinder there is also a good chance of exhaust gas getting into the water system, take header cap off and give it a sniff see if it smells fumey

 

thats an idea mate cheers, im taking head off 2moz regardless, just wanna get her back on the road for now

 

Hope you get it sorted soon mate, im just ironing out some teething problems on my zvh

 

what teething problems you got mate?

 

had a water leak ,boost problem and ive got a slight oil leak. nothing too drastic. did take me ages to sort the breather systema dn the timing though.

 

well took head off, found that because they had used bolts in the exhaust instead of studs they had pushed the back off the holes through to the water ways, so water was running up the stud and into manifold (hence smoke), but.... changed head, put studs in, new gasket, new bolts and it still smokes, take plug 1 out and it steams, start it up again, take plug 2 out it steams but not number 1????????

Any ideas???????

 

don't know mate sounds strange, not water coming in from the inlet manifold is it if its not lined up spot on or not sealed right, bit of a long shot