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Old 10-26-2003, 09:41 PM
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Question head gasket or cracked block?

i'm getting the white smoke in the exhaust and the milky (coolant) look on the dipstick. so i'm assuming it's either a blown head gasket or a cracked block. how do you tell?
Old 10-26-2003, 09:53 PM
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probobly a head gasket.......Start pulling it apart ....Were you spraying or running boost?
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nope. i just had those crappy GM gaskets i think, the flimsy feeling "composite" looking ones.
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Well, the way I would think is "it's probably the gasket, because it wuld really really suck if it was the block." Try replacing the gaskets, and if that doesn't do it, you know it's the block. Good luck.
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it should be easy to tell if it was a gasket once i take the heads off but i don't know how to tell before i yank them.




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