before & after (head gasket change)

Post by **ben739** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:08 am

before the head gasket on my Traveller went, i was keeping my mileage log book for computing fuel consumption. I was getting a horrid 100 miles from about 18 liters of petrol. that clued me into something being wrong, and then the inevitable happened and the gasket went, i changed it and now have been getting around 130-150 city driving miles from a half tank. i have been using the Shell Optimax and have noticed a great difference in consumption and performance as well.

Ben

Post by **Kevin** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:27 am

130-150 city driving miles from a half tank

Thats sounds excellent 40 - 46 mpg, my mixed town driving averages around 35.

Post by **Welung666** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:44 am

My school and works runs at the moment are averaging about 15mpg

Although in Phoebe's defence she is running on lead memory, variable timing (about 2 degrees between the timing chain being slack and the diaphram in the vac advance torn) and topping up her oil yesterday found a rocker cover full of mayonaise

surgery time soon I think!!!

Post by **Tris** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:42 pm

I have a rocker cover full of what you call "mayonaise" but maybe not so bad, grandfather told me it was common with these engines

Post by **Onne** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:24 pm

If you do a lot of short trips it tends to happen.

Post by **Chris Morley** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:56 pm

It happens, it does no harm - just wipe it away every couple of weeks with a bit of kitchen roll.

Post by **SteveandWilliam** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:04 pm

So how do you tell if the head gasket needs changing?

Post by **heathy12** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:22 am

Chris Morley wrote:It happens, it does no harm - just wipe it away every couple of weeks with a bit of kitchen roll.

Usually just condensation int the engine conjealing with the oil in this cold weather, nothing too bad unless theirs lots of it!

A trick I was told and use if a head gaskets gone is to flush the water system (once the heads changed of course!) with swarfega or the industrial hand de-greaser cleaner in a water solution.

Its amazing, the oil and cr ap in the water system conjeals with the hand cleaner and it all gets picked up with the water when you flush it thru. Everything else just forms as a scum at the high point in your water system and you just scim it off, you can usually just stick your finger into it and it clasps to you finger!

You also get a lovely Lemon Scented Water system too!

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