Head Gasket Leak

[CoastChief]

 

 

I was looking through my notes after I saw that my coolant looked like river water. I had taken it to be replaced it the week I had purchased her. I showed a few members and they all mentioned the possibility of a HEAD GASKET LEAK? So I did a flush, flushed out the hoses top and bottom. Used 3 gallons of distilled to flush again. Ran for a second, flushed again. Filled with coolant and water. When I looked into the bucket I found oil contaminated in the coolant.

 

looks like I’ll be doing some reading. 
 

any tips, advice as always is deeply appreciated!

 

 

 

[omega_rugal]

a blown head gasket is the main suspect but oil can be getting into the coolant from somewhere else, you have a lot of corrosion there too

[fiatslug87]

Have you checked compression? Followed by a leak down test.

[CoastChief]

On 8/17/2020 at 7:37 PM, fiatslug87 said:

Have you checked compression? Followed by a leak down test.

I have not, but I assume it’s the original gasket so I went ahead and ordered one. 

[CoastChief]

Today I was driving back roughly an hour away from home. I get maybe 10 minutes away from home. See my temp gage start to spike. My car starts to smell and smoke. I hear a sudden pop and a ton of coolant shoots out the top right of my hood. I pulled over and saw my temp gage continue to spike over 270... thanks @eaglescout526 for helping me out. Thought my Jeep was about to catch fire. Got so hot it turned off at some points and wouldn’t crank. My power steering started to not work.
 

 

let the Jeep cool down and I reattached the upper radiator hose and started adding coolant.

 

Found a large leak gushing from the front of the car. in between two pulleys. All the coolant I put in seemed to fall right out. I started the car and it sounded fine. Outside the small tapping noise. 
 

 

 

UNDERSIDE - note all the rust deposits from dried coolant aswell.....yikes.

 

 

As noted you can see the leaking coming directly inbetween the two pulleys. 

[CoastChief]

On 8/17/2020 at 7:32 PM, omega_rugal said:

a blown head gasket is the main suspect but oil can be getting into the coolant from somewhere else, you have a lot of corrosion there too

 

On 8/17/2020 at 7:37 PM, fiatslug87 said:

Have you checked compression? Followed by a leak down test.

how should I address this to further prevent corrosion etc?