Thread: water loss

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When I start my car in the morning I am getting some water out the exhaust. After the car warms up the water stops. The car does not overheat, nor is there a presence of water in the oil.
My concern is that every time I use the car I seem to lose about a pint of water from the overflow tank ? There is no visable sign of a leak. When I park the car after using the tank is full, when I return the next day it is down around a pint or so.
Could I have a leak in the head gasket bleeding into the exhaust valve or worse a cracked head ?
I have not done a pressure test or a compression test recently.
Any help would be appreciated.

does it blow white smoke at all? can you smell antifreeze out the pipes? engines produce water because of the chemical reactions going on. check your plugs, if any or clean, mark them down as which cylinders they go to then run a comp test, if those are lower with all the others higher readings, those cylinders probably have a leak in the gasket but not enough to cause an overheat, but still needs fixed before it does overheat. it's usally in between 2 cyl's, right next to eachother.

Scott;

I think you should sell the car, to me. J/k.

It is normal for water exiting the exhaust pipes for the first few minutes after a cold start up. Furthermore, it is normal for the reservoir to be full at shut off, and then after it is cooled down, for there to be less water in the reservoir. It is designed to do this. In this way the radiator gets filled each time after shut down.

What is not normal, is to have water in the cooling system. This stuff evaporates. Try some anti-freeze. This newly developed solution has a higher boiling point, plus it doesn’t evaporate. Neet huh? Hope this helps.