Re: Question for the group.

From: Kevin (ksmith@korea.com)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 09:08:07 EDT


Thanks for the info, I will try your advice in the morning. Damn, I hope I
can wait until I do the M-1 install next month.
----- Original Message -----
From: <SEMIHEMI01@aol.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 21:40
Subject: Re: DML: Question for the group.

> Kevin,
> It's a very good sign of a blown head gasket or God forbid a cracked
> head. Most likely a gasket is blown between the water jacket and the cyl.
> wall. Crank it up and let it idle for about 5 minutes. Then pull the
spark
> plugs, check each one and if one is wet or extremely clean, that's the cyl
> that is getting water. Another trick is to loosen the radiator cap and see
if
> the vapor stops coming out of the tail pipe. look for bubbles coming into
the
> cooling system with the cap off.
> A small leak will not effect performance that is noticable. Bill
>
> SEMIHEMI01@AOL.COM> KB SuperCharged, 4.7L, 2001, QC,
> http://hometown.aol.com/semihemi01
>



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