Latest Head Gasket Sealant

You may or may not have ever experienced a leaking or blown head gasket in your car's engine. If you have you already know what the warning signs are even if you ignored the early ones you could not possibly ignore the final warning that occurred at the point of complete failure. In the early stages of failure your car tries to let you know something is going on when the temperature gauge is higher than normal or you keep having to top up the coolant reservoir. At this point a head gasket sealant could have saved you a lot of trouble if you had but noticed the signs. Unfortunately most people do not see the signs and the failure continues to worsen over what could be weeks or possibly even months. Finally your car lets you know that the head gasket has completely failed by the huge plume of white smoke that starts to billow out of the tailpipe. At this point what was probably a small pinhole in the head gasket that could have been easily fixed with a good head gasket sealant has become a large hole or rip in the gasket that is letting coolant pour into at least one of the cylinders in your car's engine. For years there have been a variety of chemicals marketed that have claimed to be able to seal a leaking head gasket.

This type of head gasket sealant relied on fibers or metals that were suspended in a liquid and poured into the cooling system. The engine was then warmed up and the suspended materials would theoretically flow into the leak and eventually seal it. Many of these chemicals actually worked relatively well if the hole was very small meaning that you caught the problem very early on. In fact many people would keep them in their cooling system at all times as a preventative measure. However when it comes to a warped cylinder head , a cracked block or a fully blown head gasket these types of head gasket sealant rarely if ever did any good.

The only way to repair this kind of damage was to tear the engine down and replace all of the damaged parts with new ones and have the warped heads milled or the cracked block welded to make it leak free again. This could end up costing hundreds of dollars in repair bills. This is something that most of us would really like to find a way to avoid if we end up facing a blown head gasket. Fortunately in the last few years there has been a lot of research conducted to find a formula that would create a head gasket sealant that could repair even a fully blown head gasket without having to tear the engine apart. The result of this research is Steel Seal a remarkable chemical sealant that is guaranteed to seal your blown head gasket and keep it sealed for as long as you own your vehicle.