A visual check of the oil can tell sometimes. Oil should not look brown, milky or have bubbles in it. Sometimes excessive smoke from the exhaust can be a sign. Excessive coolant consumption and a lack in power might be another sign. Another more involved way is a compression check on all the cylinders. That will tell you if there is a leak from the combustion chamber and which cylinder/cylinders.
A compression test. If you see white smoke from the exhaust that smells sweet, you have a blown head gasket or cracked head or both.
A dye test will tell you if your head is damaged in the event of a blown head gasket. It turns colors anywhere it is leaking on the head, hence where any cracks would be.
perform a pressure test on the cylinders. if they don't hold pressure it's a blown head gasket
A compression test will tell you if a head gasket is blown on ANY engine. Also, white smoke tells you that your burning anti-freeze, which means a head gasket is blown.
Have a compression test run on the engine.
Do a compression test.
Because the head gasket is blown.
A compression test will verify if the head gasket if blown or not, the majority of the time.
it could mean quite a few things, but blown head gasket is one.
what are you asking here? PLease be more specific ...like - how do I know if my head gasket is blown, or what do I do about a blown head gasket ......
Sure it will start with a blown head gasket. But, if you continue to run this engine with a blown head gasket you will destroy the engine.
No it will not. The only thing that will fix a blown head gasket is to replace the gasket.