head gasket

celt69 · Feb 16, 2014

Hi all,
I was in my local parts' centre yesterday and saw on the shelf a bottle of head gasket repair liquid. apparently if your head gasket has gone you pour this stuff into your cooling system and it fixes it. I spoke to one of the assistant about it and he said that people have given good report about it. So I was wondering if anybody else has seen this stuff or even used it and how have you got on with it.

cheers
Celt69

West Slope Rover · Feb 16, 2014

Don't. Do. It.

34064 · Feb 16, 2014

west slope rover said:
don't. Do. It.

+1

celt69 · Feb 16, 2014

West Slope Rover said:
Don't. Do. It.

That what I thought, seemed a very odd thing. when cars come through my workshop if the heads' gone its' gone simple as that.

DeadlyDisco · Sep 6, 2016

I tried Steel Seal this week, didn't work and it's apparently 1 of the best @ £40 a bottle. Although there were plenty of reviews swearing by it so I thought I'd give it a go. They have a no quibble money back guarantee, the only issue is they require a garage to certify that the Head Gasket has blown - now as the expansion bottle was all oily and the actual oil in the engine was like yogurt, I assumed it was a safe bet that the Head Gasket had blown - if anyone knows what else may be causing it I'm open to ideas..ohh and it's over heating and drinking coolant and water. Doesn't go red line until after about 5-6 miles, sometimes more.
I've added a few pics.

tetsu0san · Sep 6, 2016

DeadlyDisco said:
I tried Steel Seal this week, didn't work and it's apparently 1 of the best @ £40 a bottle. Although there were plenty of reviews swearing by it so I thought I'd give it a go. They have a no quibble money back guarantee, the only issue is they require a garage to certify that the Head Gasket has blown - now as the expansion bottle was all oily and the actual oil in the engine was like yogurt, I assumed it was a safe bet that the Head Gasket had blown - if anyone knows what else may be causing it I'm open to ideas..ohh and it's over heating and drinking coolant and water. Doesn't go red line until after about 5-6 miles, sometimes more.
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Holy thread hijack Batman!

Seriously though, that does look like a head gasket but if could be so many other things. If you have a Freelander then I don't know a great deal about them but as your name is DeadlyDisco then you might have a Discovery and it might be the oil cooler leaking into the rad, or a cracked head, or a cracked block. Or it might just be the head gasket.

But in any case, fixing the head gasket is by far the best option. Or at the very least finding what the problem is.

Moron · Sep 6, 2016

I tried 4 bottles of Steel Seal in aV12 Jag a while ago ,and it didnt work........I had to do the headgaskets

rob_bell · Sep 7, 2016

DeadlyDisco said:
I tried Steel Seal this week, didn't work and it's apparently 1 of the best @ £40 a bottle. Although there were plenty of reviews swearing by it so I thought I'd give it a go. They have a no quibble money back guarantee, the only issue is they require a garage to certify that the Head Gasket has blown - now as the expansion bottle was all oily and the actual oil in the engine was like yogurt, I assumed it was a safe bet that the Head Gasket had blown - if anyone knows what else may be causing it I'm open to ideas..ohh and it's over heating and drinking coolant and water. Doesn't go red line until after about 5-6 miles, sometimes more.
I've added a few pics. View attachment 106814 View attachment 106815 View attachment 106816

Simply don't bother with any kind of pour-in gasket fix for the K-series engine. It won't work, and has the potential to do harm (block coolant ways etc).

With regard to the pictures, unfortunately this really can not be anything other than a cylinder head gasket failure. Sorry about that.

Get the cylinder head hardness tested before getting it skimmed: if the head has gone soft, the replacement gasket will inevitably fail again within a couple of hundred miles

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