Civic EG

So i have a 92 civic ex-v.

i've got heat spikes when accelerating, loss of power, loss of coolant, and the coolant in my reservoir only is oily; just flushed the rad itself and it looks fine.
the rad being fine came across as odd to me. i've had a blown gasket on another civic so i know the signs but i just wanna make sure before i start taking things apart.
i dunno if these are early signs of a cracked gasket or not. since i started having sypmtoms i havent pushed the car at all, havent taken her over 3k rpms at all and as such havent had any problems with overheating.

any feedback would be stellar.
thanks ;)

sounds like a cracked head gasket to me, although coolant in the radiator being clean in a strange one....

teal_dx wrote:sounds like a cracked head gasket to me, although coolant in the radiator being clean in a strange one....

could be that it's burning the coolant to one of the cylinders and not mixing with the oil but the loss of coolant causes the air lock and overheating. would explain why it's under heavy excel.

could also be getting exhaust pressure in the coolant system on excel.