Head Gasket Test?

KASHIMG

MEMBER
1997 HONDA CIVIC
4 CYL
FWD
MANUAL
192,850 MILES

I have a turbo charged Sohc show car Honda civic. I just replaced the head gasket and gasket sets a month ago, but now my car has stopped running and there is moisture on all four plugs. The head was tested and milled and we did a block test on the vehicle before hand to see if it was worth fixing. Could it be that we may have screwed up a couple of steps in re-assembly? What would cause water to be in all four chambers? The turbo is only at 3 lbs of boost and dyno tuned. It wasn't intended to driven hard and hasn't been since I've owned it. That's been 10 years now.

Thursday, March 25th, 2010 AT 1:56 PM

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KASEKENNY

MECHANIC
18,907 POSTS

Based on what has happened with this, the only thing that makes sense is the head gasket is not sealing. So let's do a head gasket test again using this guide and see what we come up with:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/head-gasket-blown-test

The only thing that makes sense with the reassembly is the fact that the head was not torqued properly so I attached the entire process below for the head gasket.

Please run through this and let us know what you find. Thanks

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