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Hello so I've been looking all over to find out the correct way to replace the head gaskets on my 3.2. looking under the hood I have oil in the screws of my valve covers was thinking if I have to replace the valve cover gasket I wanted to do the heads too but I can't find a video anywhere on getting to the head of a 3.2

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raj99

There's a few folks here who certainly know...but it's not as easy as you might want it to be. On the scale of easy a valve cover gasket job is a 2, whereby doing the head gasket is a true PITA and I wouldn't even consider doing it with the engine in the car. That said, once the engine is out there'd be a LOT more things you can proactively do to maintain.

It sounds like you got a 3.2 C6 on the cheap and I'd first determine exactly where and how much it's leaking from. Wash teh undercarriage, drive it and get it up on a lift and inspect and determine all such leaks, then start throwing money and parts at a problem. Also, how eactly do you know that you've got a blown headgasket?

Lastly, invest some money in a good manual for such a job (i.e. erwin).

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The car overheats
Coolant cloudy white
Oil milky Brown
Little to no white smoke out of tail pipe

After reading and watching videos on here I popped the hood and looked
Valve covers look to be replaced before and Audi definitely didn't do it
Plus the guy that gave it to me said he was driving it with a broken coolant pipe so
My first instinct is head gasket