Good question. The young fellow just recently acquired the car and someone had
done the rebuild. I have only been back in town a couple of weeks and came on
stream this week when a club member gave me a call to see if I was available
today, so there is a lot that I do not know. It will get done this time.
Bob Kitterer and Dolores
1960 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) - in storage
1966 Austin Healey Sprite Mk III (Trevor) - still in boxes - in storage
On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Hal Faulkner wrote:
> Was the head re-torqued after a couple of heat cycles?
> Hal
>
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Kitterer Bob <bkitterer at me.com> wrote:
> Also on my rounds today was a stop to lend a hand with a young fellows 66'
> Sprite. It was thought that he had a carb problem but by the time I arrived
> it had been determined that he currently had a 2 cylinder engine. So off came
> the head to discover that the head gasket was blown out between numbers 1 and
> 2 cylinders. Now comes the real question, the engine was recently rebuilt
> and only has a 150 mile, what would cause a blow out of almost on inch of
> head gasket? I know it has been discussed in recent times about what is the
> best head gasket but my being mobile sort of limits what and how much data I
> can keep or access. It would be nice if I could make a good suggestion
> before they just order one from the usual source.
>
> Bob Kitterer and Dolores
>
> 1960 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) - in storage
> 1966 Austin Healey Sprite Mk III (Trevor) - still in boxes - in storage
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