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Smoking Is Not Good For Your FInancial Health

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Subject: Smoking Is Not Good For Your FInancial Health
From: Sage <ssage@socal.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:45:56 -0800
Mystery Solved. Thanks for all the great ideas and suggestons for my 
smoking, and briefly overheating Tiger. It turns out that the cause is 
definitely a head gasket, probably on the left side. A radiator shop 
checked the coolant in the header tank today and, sure enough, they 
found exhaust gasses (= blown head gasket). I should have had this done 
first.

As a side benefit to my soon to be new head gaskets, the current 289 
heads (10:5 - 11:0 compression) will come off and be replaced by 302 
heads with lower compression. The motor has tended to ping ever since it 
went in the Tiger, and got worse after California "premium" gas dropped 
from 92 to 91 octane, so this is something that needs to be done anyway. 
Since this is beyond my current ability to do it myself, and my time to 
learn how to do it, I'm having the work done for me.

Thanks again for all the help and tips from a whole bunch of you out there!

Steve Sage





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