

| Subject: | Re: Overheating, smoking, rough running |
| From: | Jim Felder |
| Date: | Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:40:24 -0500 |
Are you guys actually recommending Barr's Stop Leak to fix a metal 0-ring (compression) gasket? It's not the rubber gasket that's leaking. Water is getting into the combustion chamber somehow. I'm going to pull the plugs tomorrow and take a look. Jim On 10/23/07, Geza Polony <gezapolony@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I second the Bar's Leak idea. It works. If you don't get all the coolant > out, though, it turns to green jello, and you have a big problem on your > hands. I've seen pics on the Saab website. > > One other suggestion would be to use "normal" Bar's Leaks on it (not HG > Repair) and then if that doesn't help, flush completely and use the Head > Gasket repair stuff. > > A phone rep at BL told me you could actually have something like a 10% > coolant solution left in the system, but I wouldn't want to risk it. >
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