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Re: blown head gasket

To: Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM, spridgets@autox.team.net, pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com
Subject: Re: blown head gasket
From: Bryan Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:40:24 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-to: Bryan Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@Eng.Sun.COM>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
I did eat a 'banger on a bun' at a festival on Sunday, does that count?? Of 
course, I think I came down with a case of food poisoning from it, and was down 
for the count all day Monday. Maybe I should take that as a bad omen.

 - Bryan
 
>X-Unix-From: pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com  Tue Aug 17 17:21:26 1999
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>To: Bryan Vandiver <Bryan.Vandiver@eng.sun.com>, spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: blown head gasket
>
>Bryan,
>
>I think you forgot the beer sacrifice...:->
>
>Sounds like either just plain bad luck or a defective head gasket. Perhaps
>a piece of debris got in there  without you noticing. Having done this
>probably a dozen times over the years on different cars, I can't recall
>this ever happening to me. Seems like you did everything right, but you'll
>be able to tell more when you break it down again. I would check to make
>sure that you don't have a cracked cylinder head too. That would have
>simailar symptoms.
>
>Gerard
>
>At 12:47 PM -0700 8/17/99, Bryan Vandiver wrote:
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>Well it looks like the joy of getting my bugeye on the road is 'short
>>lived'. As
>>I was working on trying to create a better ground connection for my horn, I
>>noticed oil on the side of my newly rebuilt and running 1275 motor
>>(doah!). It
>>appears to leaking down from under the head, and some is being sprayed on my
>>exhaust manifold. I probably have less than 100 miles on this fresh complete
>>rebuild :-(
>>In any case, I'm not sure exactly what I did wrong.. I used one of the
>>'copper'
>>head gaskets from MiniMania, and an ARP head bolt kit. The head bolts were
>>torqued to 45lbs using the ARP 'special' grease. The engine was first run for
>>15-20 minutes at 2500 RPM, and then taken for three test drives about two
>>weeks
>>later(each drive was no more than 5-10 minutes). I re-torqued the head
>>after the
>>third test drive while the engine was still hot (45lbs) (25lbs for rocker
>>nuts).
>>I don't know exactly when the head started leaking oil, so I can't say if
>>it was
>>before or after re-torqued the head.
>>I also looked in the radiator, and noticed some oil there.
>>I guess I'll go the MiniMania sometime this week and pick up another head
>>gasket, and start again, but does anyone have a suggestion on what I did
>>wrong
>>the first time?? did I not retorque the head soon enough.. Not enough torque?
>>Should I use a different type of gasket? did I forget to say the proper
>>Lucas/BMC prayer before hitting the road?? animal sacrifice??
>>
>>Regards
>>Bryan Vandiver (59-bugeye)
>>San Jose CA
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