swiggy
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- Joined
- Jan 13, 2011
- Location
- Victoria, BC
I'm doing a head gasket on a $300 car I just picked up for my girlfriend, its pretty mint apart from the blown gasket (really bad, super milky oil, I towed it home). Guy did start it for me, it has sat for 10 months and fired first time, ran great for 3 seconds before I shut it off. He said it suddenly blew white smoke when they were 2 blocks from home, so it hasn't been driven with coolant in the oil.
Any point in checking compression before pulling the head? I don't have a leakdown tester, head is obviously coming off. It seems to have even compression from way it turned over and ran fine. I know Mick always says test compression before pulling head?
It has sat for 10 months with milky oil, am I likely to find rusty cylinders? The fact it runs fine made me optimistic its not too bad inside.
Seeing conflicting advice on using copper spray, and also conflicting advice on retorquing head bolts after a few heat cycles.
Its my first head gasket, is a fairly cheap beam-type torque wrench good enough?
82 240 with B21A carbed engine
Any point in checking compression before pulling the head? I don't have a leakdown tester, head is obviously coming off. It seems to have even compression from way it turned over and ran fine. I know Mick always says test compression before pulling head?
It has sat for 10 months with milky oil, am I likely to find rusty cylinders? The fact it runs fine made me optimistic its not too bad inside.
Seeing conflicting advice on using copper spray, and also conflicting advice on retorquing head bolts after a few heat cycles.
Its my first head gasket, is a fairly cheap beam-type torque wrench good enough?
82 240 with B21A carbed engine
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