I bought an E34 with a bad head gasket and before I started tearing it apart to change the gasket I did a compression test. To my surprise the numbers were 200-215 across the board. Not bad for an engine with almost 200k. The oil looked clean and free of water and the coolant looked a nice blue color.
I pulled the intake to change a few gaskets and check things out and when I finished it up and started bleeding the cooling system it seems to have an unlimited amount of air/steam and brown(exhaust?) steam.
Could it be a cracked head and since i did the comp test when the engine was cold the crack had not separated the crack enough to loose pressure through it?
A little confused here.
Thanks guys!
I pulled the intake to change a few gaskets and check things out and when I finished it up and started bleeding the cooling system it seems to have an unlimited amount of air/steam and brown(exhaust?) steam.
Could it be a cracked head and since i did the comp test when the engine was cold the crack had not separated the crack enough to loose pressure through it?
A little confused here.
Thanks guys!
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