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[Healeys] Off comes the head...Update

Subject: [Healeys] Off comes the head...Update
From: bighealey3k at aim.com (Larry Wendland)
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 11:09:51 -0500
Sludge comes in bags now?

Larry


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
To: Bruce Steele <healeybruce at roadrunner.com>; 'Healey List' <healeys at 
autox.team.net>
Sent: Sat, Feb 11, 2017 6:37 am
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Off comes the head...Update


    
Begs the question: How did the 'bag full of sludge' get into the      water 
jacket?
    
Bob
    
    
    
On 2/10/2017 4:02 PM, Bruce Steele      wrote:
    
                            
        
So, the machine shop has gone through            my block and low and behold, 
oil is not seeping from the            transverse oil gallery into the water 
jacket. ?They            pressurized the oil gallery to 70 PSI and it help 
pressure;            nothing bleed into the water jacket. ?Rather, the shop     
       cooked out a bag full of sludge from the water jacket in the            
back of the block.? Apparently, the regular hot tank dipping            before 
didn?t dislodge all this gunk, and the circulating            coolant would 
dissolve just enough to foul the coolant with            the oily mess that 
sure looked like fresh motor oil mixing            with the coolant.? Fooled 
me, for sure.? For good measure,            we will coat the water jacket with 
some epoxy, then rebuild            the motor with Denis Welch pistons, street 
cam, bucket            lifters, hollow push rods and fly wheel.? I am excited 
to            experience how it will run with the new DW parts to go with       
     my DW oil pump I installed years ago.
        
?
        
          
Bruce Steele
          
Brea, CA
          
1960 BN7
        
        
?
        
          
            
From: Bruce Steele              [mailto:healeybruce at roadrunner.com] 
              Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2016 10:15 PM
              To: 'Healey List' <healeys at autox.team.net>
              Subject: Off comes the head...
          
        
        
?
        
Finally            diving in to diagnose and fix the oil in the coolant. Hoping 
           it's just the head gasket, but since it started after the            
engine was done 11 years ago, I am suspicious that it's the            oil 
gallery-water jacket wall between number 4 and 5            cylinders seeping 
high pressure oil into the coolant. Has            anyone actually had or known 
anyone with this problem?
        
?
        
Bruce Steele
        
Brea, CA
        
1960 BN7
        
      
        
  
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