Blown Head Gasket?

[railcutter]

Hi Folks! Can I assume I have a blown head gasket? Also, when I fill overflow tank to mid-point level, it blows it all out about a minute after I shut the bike down. There is no oil in the coolant. 2014 R3T

Can the head gasket be replaced without pulling the engine from the bike??

 

[Kevin frazier]

If thats oil you can

 

[railcutter]

If thats oil you can

Hey Kev! No oil ...... air bubbles

 

[Kevin frazier]

Probably air in system, flush and fill, check reservoir, fill max and bleed air release screw when it gets hot and opens thermostat. It will poor out of that screw hole when air is out. That stuff has gotta go.

 

[Mongler07]

You may not always get oil mixed with coolant on a blown head gasket. Also most head gaskets never fail. What happens if the engine gets too hot and warps the head and or head plus block causing an imbalanced clamping pressure on said gasket.
I had my ninja do this. Same with a VW I had. Cylinder pressure is extreme and will overcome the gasket and displace coolant.
I would be very confident in saying that it is a possibility but the real issue is why is it brown? It should be in blue. Or any coolant colour that you swapped to. Water alone is bad.
There is much more to this story we are not getting
Bottom line. If that's not coolant, flush it out and fill with proper coolant. Then test for head gasket failure with a proper tester. Very easy, very cheap.
Water alone can over boil that and combine with a bad cap can definitely be your issue.
Start with a 2 cycle flush with distilled water then add coolant and test. You can pressure test the cap as well.
My bet is your cap is bad due to bad coolant.
Start here. Then we will see. Reason I'm saying that is usually the coolant gets displaced during operation. Not after you shut it down.

 

[TURBO200R4]

Hey Kev! No oil ...... air bubbles

sure looks like some oil to me.
u can run and watch for air bubbles
check the motor oil (i would change) for a milky like condition if the oil is contaminated.

 

[TURBO200R4]

my bike got ride of the excess two times when i stopped and i just left it like that
it was under the add mark.

 

[railcutter]

sure looks like some oil to me.
u can run and watch for air bubbles
check the motor oil (i would change) for a milky like condition if the oil is contaminated.

Hey Turbo! No, there's no oil, just a lot of bubbles. Engine oil is clean. Have you ever used one of those head gasket test kits. There only like $30. They sample the coolant looking for exhaust gas.
Thanks ...

 

[railcutter]

You may not always get oil mixed with coolant on a blown head gasket. Also most head gaskets never fail. What happens if the engine gets too hot and warps the head and or head plus block causing an imbalanced clamping pressure on said gasket.
I had my ninja do this. Same with a VW I had. Cylinder pressure is extreme and will overcome the gasket and displace coolant.
I would be very confident in saying that it is a possibility but the real issue is why is it brown? It should be in blue. Or any coolant colour that you swapped to. Water alone is bad.
There is much more to this story we are not getting
Bottom line. If that's not coolant, flush it out and fill with proper coolant. Then test for head gasket failure with a proper tester. Very easy, very cheap.
Water alone can over boil that and combine with a bad cap can definitely be your issue.
Start with a 2 cycle flush with distilled water then add coolant and test. You can pressure test the cap as well.
My bet is your cap is bad due to bad coolant.
Start here. Then we will see. Reason I'm saying that is usually the coolant gets displaced during operation. Not after you shut it down.

I just got this bike about 200 miles ago. I have regular 50/50 antifreeze that I added to it when I got the bike home. I'll try the flush and I've already ordered a new radiator cap.

Thanks

 

[Mongler07]

You would not believe how bad these can be. For the future. You want to do a thermocure flush. I have done a heat cycle flush 14 times on my rocket. Never once witnessed this happen burping the coolant. The fill plug on the block gets like 99.9% of the air out.
I'm 100% sure this is not burping air out.