BT-500 Combustion Leak Test Kit - Made in USA

Worked exactly as expected. well worth the money. Diagnosed head gasket failure. 100% would recommend over cheaper alternatives

Fyllde sin funktion, helt ok.

High quality construction. Arrived quickly on Prime. BACKGROUND I used it to confirm (?) the Honda dealer's diagnosis of "coolant was two quarts low -- seeing bubbles in the radiator -- don't drive it -- must diagnose further." After they saw bubbles, they said the opened up the engine and gave it a leakdown test. All cylinders less than 3%. Then they said they needed to do a "five-gas" test, but didn't have time that evening. They wanted to keep it overnight and do more work on it, but that didn't work for our schedule. I kind of wondered why they didn't do that ten minute long "five-gas" test first before spending an hour tearing into the engine. And I wondered why they didn't just spend the five minutes it takes to use one of these testers. The story was a little fishy, or maybe they were just clumsy and less than highly skilled. Anyway, I didn't trust them 100% at that point, so I needed a second opinion. ENTER THE BLOCK TESTER TOOL Used my tester. Lots of YouTube videos available if you're not familiar. They basically follow the proper directions on the card. Lower the radiator level by 2-3 inches with a turkey baster. Fill the tester. Place tester tightly over the radiator opening and start working the bulb to draw the gases through it for ONE MINUTE. 1) I ran the engine warm. Didn't see bubbles. 2) I took it on the interstate for a while. Didn't see any bubbles. 3) I tried it from dead-cold overnight. Still didn't see any of the bubbles mentioned by the dealer. After each visual test I ran the Block Tester with fresh fluid. Pretty much the fluid stayed imperial royal blue. Fresh fluid for each test. After one of the tests just for fun, I waved it in the exhaust tailpipe plume -- instant translucent hot chrome yellow. So the fluid works, but it just didn't find any combustion gases in the radiator. Also, after one of the tests I kept vigorously pumping for at least another five minutes and it went slightly off of the deep imperial royal blue (almost faintly indigo) toward being still strongly blue but having the slightest hint of aqua. I had some concern. But then I also tested with fresh fluid out in the clean air, and it took again about five minutes of vigorous (spastic?) pumping go get that slightest hint of aqua. Conclusion here, again, is there there were no combustion gases present in the coolant system. I wonder what the Honda mechanic saw? CONCLUSION This tester is awesome. Super easy to use. I would recommend it to friend.

cool idea. helps diagnose leaky head gasket. easy to use but the colour change isnt as big as i expected. test it on car exhaust gas if the head tests good to be sure fluid changes

You definitely need to reduce the coolant in your radiator or tank as it will suck up fluid once the car is started and the cooling system starts to flow if it is at normal to high levels. Test is very simple to run and gives very quick results.