Wonder if anyone can help me with a diagnosis or advice on what started off as a pleasant Sunday morning and now looks a bit concerning!!!
The problem is with my 1991 Disco 200tdi. It started with it being tempermental when starting but didn´t seem or sound like a starter problem, it was intermittent and when it did start, lots of greyish/blueish smoke came from the exhaust. (def more grey than blue). Losing water, overheating quickly (never got into the red) and lots of pressure in the coolant resevoir.
I came to the conclusion the cylinder head gasket was gone, so got all the parts and set out this morning removing the head. I have a reasonable amount of (amatuer) experience working on cars but never had to do a head gasket. I got it off with little problem and it wouldn´t have taken a genius to work out something was wrong in and around cylinder 3.
This link to my flickr account will show you photos of what is concerning me.
Cylinder head 200Tdi - a set on Flickr
The gasket looks fine.
The valve has brown gunky rust deposits.
The cylinder has a lot of this brown gunky stuff in it.
Does this suggests that water is getting into this cylinder?
The head gasket looks fine so I am now at a loss as to what has happened and what to do next.
Any advice would be appreciated but first a little history on the car. The head gasket was done around 2 years ago 25,000KM but not sure if right gasket was put on, and head bolts not tightened again (shouldn´t this be done after so many KM). I ran the car on SVO for around 4 months in a hot climate.
Thanks in advance
Vitamins
The problem is with my 1991 Disco 200tdi. It started with it being tempermental when starting but didn´t seem or sound like a starter problem, it was intermittent and when it did start, lots of greyish/blueish smoke came from the exhaust. (def more grey than blue). Losing water, overheating quickly (never got into the red) and lots of pressure in the coolant resevoir.
I came to the conclusion the cylinder head gasket was gone, so got all the parts and set out this morning removing the head. I have a reasonable amount of (amatuer) experience working on cars but never had to do a head gasket. I got it off with little problem and it wouldn´t have taken a genius to work out something was wrong in and around cylinder 3.
This link to my flickr account will show you photos of what is concerning me.
Cylinder head 200Tdi - a set on Flickr
The gasket looks fine.
The valve has brown gunky rust deposits.
The cylinder has a lot of this brown gunky stuff in it.
Does this suggests that water is getting into this cylinder?
The head gasket looks fine so I am now at a loss as to what has happened and what to do next.
Any advice would be appreciated but first a little history on the car. The head gasket was done around 2 years ago 25,000KM but not sure if right gasket was put on, and head bolts not tightened again (shouldn´t this be done after so many KM). I ran the car on SVO for around 4 months in a hot climate.
Thanks in advance
Vitamins
