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Monza Harry wrote:Al there is an old "Racers" trick to make gasket clean up easier, they spray the mating surfaces with "Aluminum Paint" you know the type that comes off on your hands when you touch it. This is thin enough to not affect most gaskets performance, but allows the gasket to be removed without fuss [and possibly re-use] this would have allowed a better inspection. Now looking at the pic's I don't see evidence of coolant in the chambers (they would be real clean) and the rest is going to be hard to tell especially over the net. Harry
hammerdown7 wrote:Al,
I'm sending a link to both threads to John Cowall. I haven't used this gasket or have even looked at one so I have no idea what happened here.
Dick
buddyleejjc2 wrote:Ok, I see we have two threads on this. I do not think it was the head gasket. If you look at the intake valves on the #3 cylinder, and the #1 cylinder, they look wet. #2 and #4 are pretty dry. I would have the head bench tested again. It looks like coolant is leaking into the chambers from the valves. The Mating surfaces look to be good and sealed where the head gasket crushed to the cylinders. We had one engine where the compression was north of 250 which caused the gasket to fail, and your engine doesn't show any signs of that. I would strongly recommend against using that head again. (I have plenty of extras, replace the valves and valve seals with the ones in the head and you got and you should be good. As for the head gasket disintergrating the way it did, that just means it worked, but basically welding itself to the surfaces. Thanks, John J. Cowall
cammerjeff wrote:I hate to say it but it could also be a cracked block, I had a simarlure issue with a iron block some years ago porosity can be an issue with aluminum parts also. Not ever having owned a 2.3 or 2.0 Powered Vega puts me at a disadvantage on this.
Any way a Water pump gasket failure could cause this?
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