Re: 405 Mi16, '89 - head gasket leak

Tomas (tomas_t@algonet.se)
Sat, 02 Jan 1999 23:44:45 +0100

> I saw smoke coming out from under the hood a couple of days ago, but it
> stopped before I could get over to check it. Happened again today and I
> managed to get to a gas station while it was still smoking. The mechanic
> and & I took a look and saw a small oil drip coming under the gasket on the
> back side of the head (smokes when it hits the hot metal).

If it's oil dripping onto something hot, its probably not the head gasket, there
are two
oil passages in the head gasket, the pressurized one is on the right and the
return is on
the left (seen from the back of the car), both are on the exhaust side.
It sounds like it's just the valve cover gasket, which shouldn't be so difficult
to tighten up or replace.

/ Tomas

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