Rocky > wrote:

> 94 civix lx 176k miles on block, 80k miles on head that was planed and
> checked out at the local parts store. I noticed the exhaust has white steam
> coming out the tailpipe, looking like when the head gasket went. The head
> is torqued properly.
>
> Sounds like possibly a defective head? Shouldn't the shop have caught this
> when they tanked the head and pressure tested it?


Different car, many years ago...

Dealer talked me into replacing leaking head gasket. What happened next
was new compression broke piston ring. (Everything was sort of fine
before (except the oil that leaked onto the engine block; after the head
gasket, thick white smoke from the tailpipe -- I think it went away
after the car was running a while, but not sure.) They ended up fixing
it for free, though it took a while.