bottle says pour it in radiator well i dont have a rad cap just an overflow cap should i pour it in the overflow or in the top radiator hose. thanks guys and pleas no bs i know this aint the best answer but i cant afford the repair and it only leaks externally and barely leaks just seaps. and once the engine is warm it doesnt leak. thanks guys
it won't work, but if you insist...obviously in the overflow tank
ive seen it work before so lets hope .
it is a bandaid fix, you will end up going back later on fixing it the right way
thats fine I just can't afford it right now . it don't even leak when warm it very minor and I'm using k & w
Pour it into the garbage.
Just fix the headgasket. Its not that hard
if it can seal a leak, it can seal something you don't want it to. like a radiator. or heater core. or coolant passage. seriously, that @!#$ is bad news.
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Rich Grayo Jr. wrote:if it can seal a leak, it can seal something you don't want it to. like a radiator. or heater core. or coolant passage. seriously, that @!#$ is bad news.
word.
subaru used to reccomend this @!#$ for every 30k service. they realized it didnt work and that all it did was make a mess out of the cooling system. they dont reccomend using it anymore. either fix it or ignore it until the car is undrivable. i wouldn't even bother clogging your cooling system up with this crap. just makes it harder for whoever fixes it in the long run.
you know I'm pretty sure I said no bs if your just going to say its junk don't comment. I dont like doing ith but I have to.get to work to feed my kid if this buys me sometime I'm happy. its leaking on the back of the motor on the head bolt its just seeping if out was more major I wouldn't try this.
are you leaking oil or coolant? are you 100% sure its a head gasket?
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You post things like this, expect rude remarks, because we are looking out for you in the long run.
I understand that I wouldn't do it if I could afford to fix it right . I have 2500 in a car that ain't worth 1500 I kinda resent it I love chevy but this car is leaving a sour taste in my mouth.
I know what you mean, but owning a vehicle is never a profit thing, always something bound to go wrong or something to fix. For example my girl bought a decent 97 cavalier for 2200 dollars, 3 months later the head gasket blew, then the exhaust started rusting apart, power steering pump is leaking, and rear main is leaking now too. It happens, but you just gotta deal with it. Fix it, drive it till it dies really.
yea kinda pisses me off that gm, would build and sell crap like this . I guess that is why they got a bad rep
Save your money and fix it right the first time. That stuff would cause more harm than good. You got any close friends or relatives? Maybe they can help.
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not.really my.family.doesnt have much money and since I got my girlfriend pregnant they kinda turned there back on us. thats why I said I dont.wana use that stuff but.I gotta get by for a while
I am not going to burn you on suggestions.But most of the so called fix a head gasket leak will do more damage in the long run.It can gum up the radiator,heater core,cooling passages,and end result could cause the gasket to fail due to a blockage.I understand your dilema,and money being tight.Just price a new hg from a shop and see if u can work on that cost.If it not leaking alot and can some how get a loan(sigh) from your bank I would suggest it.My two cents and good luck.
dakota sutherland wrote:yea kinda pisses me off that gm, would build and sell crap like this . I guess that is why they got a bad rep
They built the cavalier to fill a quoted.
Everything about them is a compromise chosen in order to save sticker price.
well they could have spent the extra .50 cents too make a good gasket I, would gladly reimburse them ten fold. chevy has a bad rep for heads and intakes guess I've always been lucky until now
It doesn't cost $0.005 to engineer a head gasket that doesn't fail. It takes hours and hours of engineering time. Time that the car had a very low budget for because the Cavalier was pretty much the bottom-tier car at the time.
civics and neons are cheap and they don't have a head gasket epidemic. shouldn't take that much to figure our what well and won't work but I've always thought alluminum head on an iron block was stupid. id say the cavalier proveso my point an otherwise good engine has a bad rep because of heads
