LT40 Head Gasket/ Water Pump/ Engine Problems

[golf]

Hi,

I believe the head gasket has gone on my Vw LT40 2.4TD

I have striped the engine back to the head gasket and revealed this:

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Is it the head gasket? Nothing has blown through, maybe the head has warped?

There's no water in the oil by the way..

Cheers

[RetroMat]

If the head gasket was fine could it have been the inlet manifold gasket that was letting water in? I had this on my old mazda 323, the coolant was creeping into one of the inlet ports from the water heated manifold. That gave some of the knackered head gasket symptoms.

[93fxdl]

Many years ago I drove a 35 for a living and at about 180k the head perforated and dumped coolant into the engine, mine failed quite rapidly and catastrophicaly , steam our exhaust, loss of water and then hydraulic lock when trying to restart
Ttfn Glenn

[rodney]

this a recovery truck by any chance? ,

could still be gasket as you cant always see where the leak is,.

[damageandy]

correct me if i am wrong but its rather unusual that if it was the headgasket that all six cylinders seem to have water leaking into them.

[golf]

Thanks for the help

For future reference I can confirm its the head gasket.. white stuff is left over from the burnt off coolant

Its a Camper


Think its gone over most of the cylinders because the head has warped

[rodney]

i had a lt 40 recovery truck before the latest london lez came in , fitted a td and it would carry near on anything!!,.

[golf]

May 8, 2013 23:46:29 GMT rodney said:

I had a lt 40 recovery truck before the latest london lez came in , fitted a td and it would carry near on anything!!,.

Oh rite, what TD was it? This has got the LT40 2.4TD in it..

[rodney]

came out of a ex horse box , was rebuit etc but leaked oil lol , was a 2.4 5 cylinder from a lt40 ,.