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[bibbot]

my lovly 2.5 omega sit on my drive is been there for 18 months,
I replaced the engine with one I bought from a braker for
£600 it took me 6 months to put it in, and get it on the road
soon it started to steam but the 6 months guarantee wos up.
So there it sits with the head gasket gone ,it still drives well
but i dont drive it as it leaks oil from the cam covers.
I dont have the time to do the heads and the quotes iv,d had
are over a grand I dont want to let it go ,i was offered £100 to have it
taken away, (no way I spent £600 on new tyres) so it sits on my drive.
eny one know wot to do

[Timbuk]

what makes you think it is hg?

[MutantCav]

Nothing so far to suggest its defo head gasket mate...do you have a yellowy mayo kind of mixture on the dipstick??? White fumes coming out of the exhaust?? Or maybe oil in the water header tank?

Oil leaking out of the cam gaskets is pretty cheap to do and easy enough to sort out...

Also you should update your profile to show where you are

[bibbot]

Hi thanks for replying,
there is lots of cream in the oil filler cap and a small amount of steam from the exhaust,  I dont know if it is relevant ,ther is oil up in to the intake manifold.

[Timbuk]

Mayo on the filler cap is normal, anything in the header tank?

[bibbot]

there is no oil in the header tank or on the dip stick

[Timbuk]

there is no oil in the header tank or on the dip stick

Can you smell petrol fumes from the header?

[MutantCav]

I have stripped 2 cars in a row recently that had actual head gasket failure, its VERY rare for the v6 and usually caused by continuing to run the car when something else has failed such as oil cooler or water pump and the car is overheating...

Dipstick covered in mayo and when the engine is stripped its everywhere, you really cant miss it...bit of steam from exhaust could be something completely different, mayo on filler cap is more than likely down to doing short journeys...can be helped by regular oil changes and using genuine Vaux semi synthetic oil...what other symptoms do you have to suggest HG?

[bibbot]

theres no smell of petrol from the header tank

[MutantCav]

Not sounding HG tbh, apart from the steam from the exhaust, what else is wrong with the car?? Is it overheating at all?? What temp does it run at??

[Timbuk]

theres no smell of petrol from the header tank

As Chris just said, they are rare to have HG failure but it does happen as the case of my MV6, but yours isn't sounding like a HG failure, strong smell of fumes from header and dipstick covered in mayo is a giveaway, yours has neither of these, i would investigate further

[bibbot]

The temp runs normal at all times but I have to fill the header tank 2 times a week on average.

[Timbuk]

The temp runs normal at all times but I have to fill the header tank 2 times a week on average.

I'd be looking for leaks first, HBV possibly?

[MutantCav]

Do you have signs of water leaking under the car?? HBV would be a definite favourite here...not a particularly hard or expensive fix, just a fiddly one lol

[bibbot]

Sorrey wot is a HVB