> Regarding John Twist's solution, I read the tech note regarding the
> addition of a piece of wire on the head gasket and I'm unclear as to
> what size wire should be used. If I understand the description, one
> should take a length of stranded wire and use ONE of the strands from
> that wire. Is that correct? Is one small strand enough to cure the
> problem?
The smaller the better, but any "standard" stranded wire will work. Speaker
wire probably has some of the smallest wires. I used two strands, I thought
that was what Twist recommends.
This (and counter boring the block stud holes) worked for me on a head/block
that always had a slight leak.
Larry Hoy
http://home.cwix.com/~larryhoy@cwix.com/
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