I need some advice! I have a 99 accord lx with 164000 miles. It recently developed a crack in the top of the radiator without me noticing it until it started overheating. Upon me noticing the problem with the radiator I noticed that it had oil in the coolant reservoir. I have been reading some other forums about head gaskets and porosity cracks in the engine block. My assumptions are that when the car was overheated, it blew a head gasket. I am thinking that if it was a porosity problem it would have possibly done it a long time ago. There is no coolant in the oil that I can tell and car runs great. This is why the porosity problem has me worried.Can anyone help, I am debaiting on trying a head gasket before engine swap but would like some quality advice, thanks J

 

have a shop do a cylinder leakage test ,, most likely a blown head gasket,warped head ??

 

I dont meen to sound stupid but I have never done a cylinder laekage test, just a cylinder compression test. How long do you test each cylinder and im assuming that I use compressed air????How much pressure?

 

you need to have a leak test gauge set up to do the test and yes you do need to use compressed air.. if you do not have the equipment you might want to have a shop do the test


Also i deleted the exactly other post that you wrote,, there is no need to have 2 posts asking the exact same question it is a waste of space