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Subject:Oops - Heads
From:Blake Thornton
Date:Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:45:29 -0600

Well, I finished my heads a couple weeks ago.  As I reported, everything
seemed great except I had a rough idle.  Well today I played around with
trying to find a vacuum leak, testing my timing and the like.  I might
have found something aweful:

While running the engine to look at the timing, I noticed a bit of liquid
dripping out the tailpipe.  I thought "gas?" or "condensation?"  Didn't
feel like either.  Then I notice that the coolant resevoir (the one behind
the license plate) was empty.  Thats when I thought "coolant F@#$ !".  So,
I'm still not completely sure, but what else could it be.

So, now I'm thinking that I must have messed up the green O-rings when I
put on the heads.  Or, maybe the O-rings on the block side of the
cylinders are messed up.

So, now the big questions:
1) how do I tell what the problem is?
2) how do I tell where the problem is?
3) assuming I am right, how do I tell which O-rings are messed up (the
ones toward the block or the ones toward the head)?

Thanks,
Blake
84 Westy

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