Q: Leaking head gasket.
Car stalled and smoke was coming out each end of valve cover just tried a compression test and water spurted out one of the holes head-gasket not blown what else could cause this car overheated about a week ago but has been running good for several days
My car has 169000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
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