water in cylinders .. please help!

[ahner]

hey guys,

last week my car wouldnt start. while trouble shooting the problem, i noticed that the car was not starting due to water mixed with the fuel in the cylinders. it was almost shooting out at me whne i turned the car over to check for spark. anyway, the car had plenty f spark, but due to the coolant/water, the car woudlnt start. i took the head off to due the head gasket, but to my surpise the gasket was fine. i had the head milled and the valves done at the machine shop, and the guy told me the head was not warped, nor was there any cracks in the head. now i am confused. why was there water/coolant in the cylinders, when the head and the gasket are just fine. could a seal in the turbo cause this to happen?? any other reasons why this could have happened? i got the head back topday, and i am going to install it, but i dont know why this hap[pened in the first place, therefore i am hesitant to put the head back in before knowing what went wrong. any links or advice you vcan give me would be greatly appreciated. thnx.

 

[TalonRacer18]

You should buy a new headgasket anyhow. You should change it when you mill your head and do head work like that.

 

[ahner]

Originally posted by TalonRacer18
You should buy a new headgasket anyhow. You should change it when you mill your head and do head work like that.

ya.. i got a new gasket. i just dont know why the water was in the cylinder, since the gasket and the head were both fine.

 

[wastefuldreamer]

How can you tell if the gasket is fine?

 

[Defiant]

Empirical evidence tends to indicate it wasn't. Or, you have a crack.