Running Riot

I hate how **** that has been covered a million times on a million other forums and even effing eHOW is posted. Seriously, just typing headgasket symptoms or how to bleed coolant honda turns up pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages of results.

tooly145

okay so i have a 2002 civic same thing is happening a brown foamy substance when i open the radiator cap there is no milky oil on the dip stick or the oil cap..also no white smoke from exhaust and car doesnt seem to be over heating..the guy i bought it from did say it needed a thermostat and my guesses are he hasnt flushed the cooling system ever..so maybe it could just need a thermostat and flush and new antifreeze or new head gasket what do you guys think ?

wingsfan19

Run a compression test to check for head gasket failure. Just don't get the compression tester stuck in the spark plug hole like I did! Autozone loans them out.