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My car is smoking on start-up, or should I say burning coolant, but only on startup. She's running kind of crappy too...
I'm pretty sure I blew the head gasket...which is fine. I've just never seen a blow head gasket only burn coolant on startup. Point being has anyone seen a slow seeping of coolant into the cylinders after shutdown? The block is o-ringed. I'm gonna pull the head this week anyways to replace it so the head gasket is not an issue, I just want some opinions...
did you put the new head on? The exhaust studs on the bottom of the head/manifold go into cooling jackets and can leak like a beitch. RTV the hell out of them! Just a thought.
same old head...that's why i don't care...
man i think i have a bad headgasket too. temp gauge was going up to the red after warming up and when in the boost, has new rad. pulled head and found cyl 2 wet, not really having a coolant loss prob or smoking. head gasket looks like it burned through the ring thats all. oh and its a mopar and 9 mos old.