My friends have Real bad luck with their Audis,headgasket on 88 80 blew
03-27-2004, 10:10 AM
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My friends have Real bad luck with their Audis,headgasket on 88 80 blew
Do You think it can make a 5 mile trip if just put more coolant in on a cold weather day,or should it be towed?He seriously thinks about donating it-I'm wondering how complicated is HG on 4-cyl?
03-27-2004, 10:34 AM
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Re: did it blow because it ran it without water? loose head bolts?
Trailer it, if you value it at all.
If you don't value it, yeah, just stop and keep pouring in water while the engine is ruined completely.... oh, but that probably won't happen in 5 miles.
To be honest, a head gasket blowing on an Audi 4 or 5 cyl is pretty rare. Wonder how he was able to accomplish that.
If the HG is the only thing, it wouldn't be too complicated. But, I gotta think there's something else wrong that made it blow. Warped head? overheated engine?
If you don't value it, yeah, just stop and keep pouring in water while the engine is ruined completely.... oh, but that probably won't happen in 5 miles.
To be honest, a head gasket blowing on an Audi 4 or 5 cyl is pretty rare. Wonder how he was able to accomplish that.
If the HG is the only thing, it wouldn't be too complicated. But, I gotta think there's something else wrong that made it blow. Warped head? overheated engine?
03-27-2004, 10:41 AM
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Well he describes it as "a lot of white smoke from engine comp. and exhaust"
That's his 3rd car,and 2 previous cars blew headgaskets on him(Olds calais and Toyota Camry),so he has experience,I don't know what he does to them.80 is a beater he bought in February for 800$,mileage-unknown(faulty cluster)
03-27-2004, 10:51 AM
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Re: that would be a blown headgasket. The quickest way to blow one - that I know of - is to
overheat the engine. The head and block are significantly stronger than the narrow passages on the head gasket. As it begins to get cherry hot, usually one piece of the gasket will blow out - where water normally would be circulating to cool things - and water (when it is added again) runs into the cylinder and "burns" with the gas. Thus, thick white smoke.
Since all his cars blow headgaskets, you have to wonder if he ever checks the coolant, oil, etc. I'd bet the engine is shot, if he had it long.
Since all his cars blow headgaskets, you have to wonder if he ever checks the coolant, oil, etc. I'd bet the engine is shot, if he had it long.
03-27-2004, 11:14 AM
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Yea,he's not the most car-caring/lucky cars don't break on him guy
Now i come to thinking that something would trigger if he had a functioning cluster.Since he doesn't-he didn't even know he overheats...Guess it's donation.
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