Head gaskets on rovers?
recone engine a year ago. & engine oil level is ok not rising.or muddy colour any
ideas
Answers:
First, what year & model of Rover and engine size?
As others say, K series 1.4, 1.6 and 1.8 engines and Rover 825 KV6 are very prone to blowing the head gasket. This is usually due to insufficient or old coolant which allows the block to overheat and the cylinder liners to move. Once this happens, a new head gasket often provides only a temporary fix.
Useful indicators of a blown headgasket are any or all of the following:
Lots of white smoke in exhaust and coolant level dropping.
Oil and water mayonaisse in sump.
On cold engine, start engine running, remove coolant filler cap, if the coolant level rises and air bubbles appear, coolant may even start to overflow.
Remove spark plugs, leave car overnight, spin engine and look for water blowing out of plugs holes.
It could also be just condenstation dripping from exhaust. Burning petrol results in vast quantities of water in addition to CO2 and other gasses. For some reason Rovers frequently emit a lot of visble water vapour from exhaust and water dripping from exhaust is also common.
Check out http://www.rovertech.net
HTH
the 1.8 k series engine is very prone to head gasket failure, mechanic job if thats the case but it definatly sounds like yours has gone. sorry
yes.. it's condensation in your exhaust.. if your pipes are stanless steel or aluminum.. no prob. if not.. it will rust from the inside out.
It does look like the head gasket, this is a well known problem with Rover engines (K Series). I once had a Freelander- Same engine- the gasket went had it fixed and within 3 months it went again. my advice ,I'm sorry to say is to divest yourself of this vehicle ASAP.
sounds like its gone common fault with Rover K-series engines
yes it does
If you have a rover with a k series engine, especially 1.8, and your're not experiencing head gasket failure, you should buy a lottery ticket & hope your luck lasts 'till the weekend, (because your engine wont!)
as youre probably aware by now its your head gasket
if you get it fixed make sure whoever does it uses metal
locating lugs as for some strange reason someone at rover
thought plastic ones were a good idea,hence head movement and blown gasket
Sadly it seems head gasket is the most likely culprit, the K series, was designed as a 1.1 and 1.4 and needs careful handling if it is to survive as a 1.6 or 1.8, especially keeping the coolant levels and antifreeze quantity up. Crazily enough the K series is a great sports engine but traffic jams and pulling trailer kill it, I wish the Chinese the best of luck with it but i would not touch a chinese k series with a barge pole.
You have three alternatives, if it runs OK, stick some Barrs leak or similar in and hope it stops the leak, or to minimise the cost get it to a Garage tomorrow for a new Head Gasket, or keep topping the water up until it expires completely and you scrap the car or fit a decent recon engine.
Most Rovers had the most discusting top ends I can't believe anybody would have let them out the drawing room. In thos it's not very often the gasket but the entire head. People replace the gasket only and it goes for 5000miles then packs up again.
This is a good thing though, you shouldn't do thir ultimately as the waterways are thin in them and are prone to blocking too, but put some Block seal in anyway, just make sure you flush the system again. The engine is no use to you the way it is so you can't ruin a ruined engine, but you still have to be fairly unlucky to block the waterways. If you flush the system it may well work normally for 6months afterwards. In th 90's when the problem was still relatively unknown many dealers used to do this and it was only identifed by different temp gauge behaviour. If it stays at 1/4 it's not damaged, if it varies between 1/4 and 3/4 then someone's put sealent in the engine.
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