Steel Seal. Head Gasket repair in a bottle?

[logexdan97]

Found this website:http://www.steelseal.com/eng/home.html
It claims to repair cracked heads and blown head gaskets with one application. Has anyone out there ever used this product? I doubt it, as a search using "steel seal" came up with nothing. Can this be the miracle elixir, or just another serving of snake oil?

 

[john_eckels]

Products like that are often used by shady "buy here pay here" car lots that sell cheap junkers at very high interest rates. They often do fix the symptons for a while but it is like putting tape over a hole in a leaking bucket. Sometimes it works for a long time, sometimes it works for just a short while. I personally feel that you are just delaying a repair with the potential of causing even more damage i.e. cloged radiator, heater core etc. A friend of mine had a head gasket blow, dumped some stuff in the radiator drove around for a while then traded the car in. The dealer commented on how nice of a trad he had

 

[ded6080]

Agree with John - I used K & W block seal in my 87 toyota 4wd (22R) pickup for a blown head gasket - has 330,000 plus miles - basically a farm truck only - works for a while then blows out again - heater core clogged too.

I wouldn't use it on a truck that I was going to keep or put on the road unless it was a emergency/temporary fix to get it back home from a trip.

If you're going to keep the LC do it right with a HG kit - just did the HG on the LC with the gasket kit from C-DAN

 

[Driley]

My old 6 series BMW had a cracked cylinder head and coolant would leak into the exhaust. If it sat for a day or two, I would get a pretty impressive white cloud out of the exhaust. For a while, I would just release the coolant pressure by cracking the cap on the expansion tank after parking then it would not leak.

I drove the car about 2 to 3K miles a year and had spent a fortune on everything else it needed so I started looking around for a "snake oil" fix. Found this stuff: http://www.jemdistributors.com/ I used their Quik Seal and for about 2 years didn't lose a drop of coolant. Drove it from Oregon to southern California for a car show at an average speed of 90 miles per hour and never had a problem.

As tempting as that product is, I would not do it again unless I had no other option or the vehicle was only for "special purposes" (read local, no highway unless in constant cell phone range).

Riley