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Subject:Re: Headgasket diagnostic "trick"
From:Geo
Date:Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:26:12 -0400

On 4/28/10, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...They say stick a latex glove over your pressure tank cap and start up the
> vehicle.  If the glove 'waves at you' by filling up with leaked gasses
> coming into the pressure reservoir, you got the leaky gasket...I thought
> that was pretty clever.  Love little 'tricks' like this...

I have done this (on a Fiat) but it is much more amusing if you use
another popular 'product' commonly sold at the drugstore... quite
exciting when that thing inflates.

Geo

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