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Re: ugly pugly

To: Larry Colen <lrcar@red4est.com>, british-cars@autox.team.net,
Subject: Re: ugly pugly
From: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@ntsource.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:22:33 -0500
At 03:17 PM 8/14/2001 -0700, Larry Colen wrote:
>....
>When I pulled the plugs so that I could turn the crank I was greeted by an
unpleasant sight:
>....
>http://www.red4est.com/jasmine/plugs/plugsdetl3.jpg
>http://www.red4est.com/jasmine/plugs/plugsdetl4.jpg
>....
>Does this look like the effect of coolant getting into the cylinders?

Yup.  Looks like waterstone to me.  If you used a laminated copper head
gasket, I suggest you try it again with a fiber head gasket.  See MGB
1975-1980.

Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude (and late model head gasket)
    http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg

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