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Blown headgasket?

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Ghost1984

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Dec 29, 2003
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For a while I've been thinking that I have a blown headgasket. I noticed the car smoked when you rev it(smoke looks white, but not 100% sure) and I did a compression check and it read 150-120-120-150. We did a test on the coolant and it showed that it was contaminated with carbon monoxide so that made me even more sure that its the headgasket, but i just need some of your opinions. Anyone?
 
what i would say is its not the headgasket...ur commpression was fine, generally your compression will suck...also ..check the dipstick...if the oil look milky in color(you will know wat im mean when you see it) its the head gasket...since thats not wat you described i would say the the pcv valve...mine was blowing tons of blue and white smoke, and i installed the breather and it helped... see the stock pcv system alows the access pressure to go back into the intake, mine was blowing oil into the intake system and through the motor causing it to burn oil and smoke.....now my pcv valve is actually cloged soo its leaking mad oil down block i just havnt had a chance to fix it but i would say try the little things like a new pcv valve(7.99) and a little breather(9.99) ....then see what happens.

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