Strange coolant colour/behaviour

[platofan]

Mine's been an angle since getting it back, don't know what a 100k block and a 26k head mean for the life expentancy of the engine but i'm hoping it has given the engine a good bill of health as the right oil and coolant etc etc was used.

They still never found anything wrong with the old head though so I reckon it was a crack that was letting gas through.

Good luck with your head swap...been told the injectors need setting up properly as we put my old injectors in the new head and it was having trouble cold starting, then we swapped them for the injectors that came with the 26k head and it was perfect.

They might work straight off for you or I was told a dial gauge is needed to get them line up exactly right.

 

[Viking]

I still think there was nothing wrong with your cylinder head, and it was simply a gasket failure.

 

[nick9one1]

I finally bit the bullet yesterday and replaced the head/gasket.

Car was still running as it was when I started this thread but I just wanted to get it done before the weather turns cold as my heaters didn't work!

All has gone pretty well so far no major problems at all, and its only taken about a days labour!

Haven't started it yet as it doesn't seem to want to fire up but I have probably just forgot to connect the glow plugs or the fuel pump needs bleeding.

 

[nick9one1]

Well it runs now! I think the pump just needed time to auto-purge.