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Subject:Re: leaky head gasket question again
From:DaveC
Date:Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:11:39 -0800

>I've had my 84 for about 18 months. It has 92k miles on it's 1.9L and last
>fall I replaced the gaskets. After what I went through getting the sleeves
>off the cylinder heads I'm sure that was the first time they had ever been
>off. I just cleaned them up and put them back on after a very tiny bit of JB
>weld on one small area. 18 years on original gaskets does not seem bad to
>me, you be the judge. It now runns perfectly.

JB Weld in the head pits? This really works? How many others on this
list have used this technique?

This would greatly lower the price of repair.

Dave (on the cheap after ordering all that SA stuff...)
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