[Shotimes] Head Gaskets 2 and other ?

[James White]

As a converted Romain Catholic for the past 37 years, I can assure 
you that there is a Saint Rusty.

Pray to him and you will not have any trouble.  But should you have 
any doubton reassembly, you should slather anti-size over everything,
in case you did it incorrectly.

However, there is not a Saint No Squeek.  It is very hard to decide 
where to use super glue (same as loctite) to keep a joint from moving,
or premium grease to keep it quite when it does move.  You have 
tp pray really hard on that one.  ;-)

regards, Jim White - greensho@crown.net


At Wednesday, 4 January 2006, "van Oss" <vanOss@centurytel.net> wrote:

>Doing head gaskets on a 3.8L...   When we got the rear head off,
it was 
>clear the HG failure had been at cylinder #6 ... puddle of coolant 
on the 
>piston but nicely de-carboned.  All other cylinders look normal.
>
>Tomorrow we begin re-assembly.  Thanks for the tips about spraying 
the new 
>HGs.  We plan to lube and re-use the head bolts, this is an economy 
job on a 
>93 Taurus with over 100K so the tranny can't last forever.  Any 
tips on 
>re-using or tightening the head bolts?  What sort of lube to use? 
Just 
>spray lube?  Would it be wrong to apply silver anti-sieze to head 
bolts?
>
>One snapped or rounded bolt head and we'd have been screwed, but 
we had good 
>fortune in that regard.  We decided that the church needs to name 
a patron 
>saint of rusted fasteners.  You know, someone to whom you could 
direct that 
>prayer that you say inside just as you begin to apply torque to 
a rusty 
>bolt.  Saint Rustolius, or Saint Rusty for short.  George and Alan,
you'll 
>just have to take my word on this.  You too Kerbster.
>
>VO 
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