

| Subject: | cracked head |
| From: | Greenamyer, William L |
| Date: | Mon, 18 Nov 2002 06:20:01 -0800 |
Well I have confirmed it. I definately have a driver side cracked head. Checked the head nut. Apparently the prior rebuilder didn't bother to use sealent either. Tryed some stuff called Permatex Aviation. Seems to work nicely and torques smoothly. Then ran the engine on the street to warm it up and get some pressure in the system. Used a stethoscope to find the actual point of the leak and then confirmed the exact spot by revving the engine and actually seeing the leak. The air path was in fact throwing the coolent all over the electronics on the engine compartment wall. Need to check some other stuff out now and decide on just replacing the head or heads or doing a rebuild. Engine has about 80K on it. Actual head gaskets are fine but based on no sealent under the head nut, I am wondering what else might be wrong. Have a small oil leak on top of the engine. Could be no sealent was used on the half body either. William
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