Mike,
Sounds like a head gasket. Brown sludge would be oil. Check your oil
(dipstick) for signs of water droplets or foam.
Gerard
At 12:24 AM -0800 3/26/01, Mike Maclean wrote:
> I have all of 44 miles on my Bugeye now and am noticing it heating
>up a bit when stopped at a light, so I checked the coolant level tonight
>and discovered a brown sludge on the bottom of the radiator cap and in
>the neck of the radiator. This is a new core and the engine was hot
>tanked and the oil galleries were cleaned out with long gallery brushes
>as well. The head gasket leaking? The overheating could be because the
>engine is still not run in yet, but what's the brown sludge?
>Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
>
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