Car is Dead!!

[stan]

why would it have hydraulic'd? the ammount of fluid required for that to happen is far from consistent with a h/g failure. a leaking headgasket would leak a small ammount of coolant into the chamber=steam

[Rich]

i managed to hydraulic mine from a wrongly laid HG which was my own fault (caught it on the locating dowel on contact of the head to b/e and moved it slightly) luckily it was when turning over without the coil lead on so managed not to damage owt, wasnt much water that got in imo but still caused it to lock so it could happen but tbh its not very likely to have unless the HG has literally shot to pieces in many places

[stan]

The gasket must have moved off the dowl mate (or it didnt have dowl?), there isnt enough movement if its on the dowl. in which case it it would have moved quite a bit, and in all probablyility not ran if the coil lead was connected.

Thats different to head gasket failure on an otherwise running engine.

[Coops]

them dowels are a bastard, i had one stuck in the head, so it was taken out when head was skimmed and then i stuck it back in the head like an idiot n cudnt get it out! u wanna try replacing the head, on ur own, with no crane or lift purely by hand onto th b/e with the head gasket held by one dowel only. flippin thing kept slippin, took forever get it right!

we live and learn tho, least next time i'll realise where the dowels shud be!

[Rich]

The gasket must have moved off the dowl mate (or it didnt have dowl?), there isnt enough movement if its on the dowl. in which case it it would have moved quite a bit, and in all probablyility not ran if the coil lead was connected.

Thats different to head gasket failure on an otherwise running engine.

ahh right now i know! yeah it must have moved quite a bit as the dowels were deffo in, was a unipart HG as well (bags of shit) would never touch one of them again as they are the sole most useless thing on the planet (yes even more than a cooked spaghetti fork)

you learn something new everyday, thanks for the addition to my knowledge base stan

[VIPERONE]

hmm from my experience i'd say the piston has gone.. sounds like number 2 piston or number 3....they can snap and blow holes in the block

[Coops]

[VIPERONE]

[Loz]

LMAO!!