man, i'm an idiot if that's the case because I did a complete reseal both
times!!!!  Does anyone know if a simple retorque will stop the
compression-pressure-leaking-in-to-coolant problem?  BTW i did not have any
white smoke puffs, unless it occurred only at start up and i confused it with
normal, cold start condensation smoke.  Otherwise, compression pressure seemed
to be blowing out of cylinder rather than other way around.  Coolant did get
quite a bit of black, sooty/oily chunks floating around though.

BILL wrote:

> Don't you get a puff of white smoke out your tailpipe when this happens?
>  And is it possible to re-torque the heads to solve this?
>
> Bill
>
> >My '85 gave me these symptoms twice - both times were when one cylinder was
> >leaking compression pressure into the cooling system due to a bad head
> >gasket (metal shim on top of cylinder) seal.
>
> >
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