tiny white smoke! head gasket sealers?

[DAT RICE]

My 3rd gen camry is puffing a tiny bit of white smoke right now;been like this for 3 months, didn't really pay attention til now. Its the head gasket i believe. I checked it from the front, and saw a tiny bit of seepage on the right of the head gasket(may be something else). How bad is this? and what is the extent of the damage? I've had the engine overheat once in the past due to running on no coolant and just noticed that i've been driving the car with little oil, and a decrease a in performance. I fear a warped head.


Do those headgasket seal products really work and if so how much are they?

I want to save my baby ASAP and my wallet.
My priority is the headgasket and then the 4 oil leaks i have. I've stopped driving her btw.

[sirspanky]

I used this stuff called blue devil on a 99 chrylser minivan with 200K on the clock. Original headgasket went. Called around for ideas on what to do. Picked up blue devil from Napa its expensive. $50 a bottle they use it in the Semi industry to get a few extra hundred thousand miles out of Semis with blown head gaskets. Buy it. Use it. Drive it. you'll be good if you follow the directions to the T. That was over a year ago. I still see that horrible van with its chrome 14" spinner hubcaps runnin around.

[sirspanky]

Originally Posted by DAT RICE

I want to save my baby ASAP and my wallet.
My priority is the headgasket and then the 4 oil leaks i have. I've stopped driving her btw.

these two things do not corrilate. Headgasket is either going to be an expensive fix if you take it somehwere. Prolly not too bad of a headache if you do it yourself. But blue devil is a band aid although I prolly would have driven that van until it actually blew up.

[AlmightyCamry777]

For a temporary fix, aluma-seal works pretty darn well. I used it several times for a quick fix on alot of engines in the past and it almost always worked.

[DAT RICE]

I am willing to do the headgasket if there's a DIY for it, since i have some free days. I'm a grease monkey btw. I went to autozone and they had the sealant from 9 bucks to 50 bucks. I'll get the latter if can't do my gasket, it'll probably have aditional metals besides sodiom silicate. I've heard these sealants can also last many years later.