help quickly...did i blow a headgasket

[mygreensho]

ok took my car for its daily drive after all the maintence to it...the dealer checked my valves and such replaced both head gaskets around 1k miles ago..well today i was still getting smoke from the pulley area, so i popped the hood to check it out...and i heard a gurgling noise...i tracked it down it was coming from the plug hole on the far right side of the engine...it was full of coolant...and the middle one wasnt full but boiling from the sides of the wall...called the dealer i was ******....they said to tow it up there, they would check it out...and im pretty sure thats the head gasket area isnt it? help

 

[jelloslug]

That does not sound good, how did you manage to need head gaskets in the first place? Very few people have had headgasket failures.

 

[sdpatt]

There is no practical way to get coolant into the spark plug well. The head gaskets have nothing to do with getting coolant in the plug wells.

Did the dealership replace the valve cover gaskets when they "checked the valves"? But even that wouldn't open the opportunity to get coolant in the plug wells without pouring it in there.

Did the dealership wash the engine? If that was a mix of water and oil that would indicate that they either didn't replace the spark plug well seals or did not install the valve cover correctly.

Something is very much not right.

<small>[ March 17, 2003, 01:38 PM: Message edited by: sdpatt ]</small>

 

[mygreensho]

i talked to a buddy of mine a good sho knowlegable person...he told me what may have happened was headgasket went...filling the clinder up with coolant and up through the plug..but i still have no idea...they towed it off..im just waiting on them to call me to tell me how terminal it is