Quoting Forrest Christian <forrestc@imach.com>:

> I can't speak for the Miata, but I can vouch that a head gasket failure
> can cause overheating without enough symptoms to be recognizeable.   I
> had a pontiac with the L4 engine which is notorious for head gasket
> issues - and after months of trying to hunt down an overheat issue, one
> morning it finally did provide enough leakage into the exhaust that the
> very first turn over of the engine produced a nice cloud of white smoke..=
..
> ...

But there's that white smoke cloud though, which is not the case (at =20
least I've not seen any post indicating this yet) with this thread's OP.




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