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Which cylinders can get coolant in them from a blown head gasket

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Old 02-10-2006, 08:22 PM
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Default Which cylinders can get coolant in them from a blown head gasket

Just wondering which spark plugs to remove because if I do a radiator pressure check and coolant fills a cylinder up I don't want to crank the engine and hydo-lock it.

Do I need to take them all out?


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All of them. No way to know as they are all surronded by coolant passages.
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Damn. I'll take'em all out then. Thanks.
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Take out all the plugs. You should be able to tell which cylinder is leaking. For me it was #2.
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which ever sparkplug is clean is the cyl. that is clean.
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Originally Posted by Dark_Horse
which ever sparkplug is clean is the cyl. that is clean.
I did a spark plug change about 1 month ago, they all looked identical.


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pull the spark plugs and look for the wet ones. or take the header/manifold of and look in it for wetness




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