So I got the unfortunate news that there could be a small leak in my head gasket in my 2000 Acura TL. There are no external coolant leaks and the only other thing that could cause me to lose coolant is a leaking head gasket. The car has 240,500km and the leak is fairly slow I tend to lose 1L of oil every 10k and half a litre of coolant every 10k so the leak is small but is more noticeable after hard driving. (Note small amount of steam was coming out of the rad after taking the cap off)

Now I'm left with 3 options;
1: Drive the car like normal, just keep high revs to a minimal keep an eye on the coolant and change the oil a little more frequently from 10k to 8k of synthetic. Then maybe replace the head gasket the next time I need a new timing belt (only 15k on my current one) or if the leak becomes really bad.

2: Sell the car before the problem becomes too noticeable and buy another Acura.

3: Try head gasket fix drive the motor until it quits and do an engine/tranny swap when it does.

What do you guys think? This kinda pisses me off because now I'm reluctant to throw any money towards mod's but then again an engine that old with that many KM's owned by a family that loves to hear their vTec kick in will do that to a head gasket sadly lol. And god forbid something would happen to my transmission too there is no way I could afford to fix both of them and it would break my heart to have to scrap the car

 

 

Will those work for headgasket leaks? I've only heard about people using those on external leaks.

 

That was made for internal leaks. Back in the day GM used in all their engines.

 

I will look into that right now the leak is very small so I will look up to see which repair sealer is safest to use before the problem gets worse. I heard Steel Seal works really well and is safe to use but for $100 a bottle it's a little much to take a chance even though it probably works the best. There's also blue devil which is cheaper but it's a hit or miss. I want to avoid using sealers with metallic particles in them like Bar's head gasket fix since it's notorious for clogging other parts.

 

Has anybody tried K-Seal before? My store sells it and it's gotten pretty positive reviews from what I've seen, the only thing that concerns me is that it is pretty low cost so I hope it doesn't do harm as well.

 

^^My neighbor used it in a crv that was blown pretty badly, and it worked great. I tried it on a subaru, and it didn't work; but besides that it plugged up a brand new radiator. I didn't see the radiator myself, but I trust the shop we sent him to implicitly. (our shop didn't want to do the head gaskets)

 

Yeah head gasket on a Subaru is a bigger pain than on a V6 Honda :s