05 GXP Head Gasket?
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 10:58 pm
Good even all, hope you all are doing well tonight. My bonneville never ceases to amaze me as far as problems coming up at inconvenient times. So about 2-3 weeks ago I had to replace my radiator and that was alright and everything came apart and put back together just fine. Unfortunately I am still on a bad streak and now I have a feeling that the head gasket has gone. I could be wrong so please correct me if I am. So what is happening is whenever I leave the car for maybe and hour and a half or let it sit overnight, on start up the engine is misfiring and chugging for about a minute or so and then a lot a white smoke comes out the exhaust pipes. The engine does smooth out and I'm assuming that it is just working all of the coolant out of the cylinders, but the white smoke says around until the car is heated up for the most part. It is cold this time of year so I know pretty much every car is putting out steam, but mine are just very large so I know something is wrong. I am experiencing a little overheating, but I think it is just a air pocket in the cooling system from when I replaced the radiator because it happens maybe every couple of days the temp gauge will rise at the most just a quarter of the way past the middle 200 mark and the next mark and then come back down after a couple seconds. So the reason I bring all this up and really just making the post is that I need this car to last me 3-4 more months or really just through this winter. She has a little under 173k on the odometer and the car really is not worth much at this point. So I am really just looking for some recommendations just to "put a bandaid on the axe wound". My biggest fear is that the motor will not start one of these mornings because of the cold weather and too much coolant in the cylinders. I have seen some people talk about stop leak, but I would be nervous about putting that in the coolant system because it could get into my heater core. Any help or advice is appreciated. Thanks.