Cheapest, easiest way to fix is a crate motor. And it'll come with a 12/12
warrantee to boot.
Check Summit, Jegs, the dealer.
TonyC
-----Original Message-----
From: Zito, James A (GE Energy) <james.zito@ps.ge.com>
To: olds list <oldsmobile@chebucto.ns.ca>; Dakota list
<dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Date: Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:38 AM
Subject: DML: Off topic dead chevelle ...LONG
>
>Ok gang, this post has been a long time in development......
>
>Apologies for repeated use of the C word.....
>
>Get back from work ( spend a lot of time on the road), around Turkey day,
>and mom gives me an Arlo Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant like rant about going
>to a wake the night before with dad driving his 71 chevelle Malibu
>convertible. Long story short after about 30 minutes of listening to what
>happened (only thing lacking was the 37 8x10 color glossy photos with
>circles and arrows on the front and a paragraph on the back explaining what
>each one was about) I tell her that it sounds like either a blown head
>gasket or cracked block.
>
>Car details: 71 Chevelle with a BBC 402.
>Another symptom but not seriously considered was the A/F in the overflow
>tank looked very thin. The stuff that came out of the block tested to
about
>-10'F
>
>I walk over to the folks house for a marginal turkey dinner and get to limp
>the car back to the barn at my house. Since I hadn't been very cold yet I
>went on the assumption that the head gaskets) had blown. There had been
>much free exchange of fluids, water in the oil and oil in the water. I
>pulled it apart, didn't see anything that screamed to me ah there is where
>the gasket popped, so I had the heads pressure checked and shaved.
>
>I put it back together and it was still exchanging fluids quite readily so
I
>then assumed it had to be the block and I started to take it apart again in
>preps for short block replacement. During this process I discovered that I
>had neglected to properly torque one of the intake bolts second from rear
on
>the driver's side, also found lots of water evidence on the dist and free
>A/F in the valley. At this point I redid the intake gaskets.
>
>Once again fired it up and now the oil is staying clean but it is all going
>away very rapidly and the water isn't cleaning up. Note on the clean oil
>haven't allowed it to cool off with the radiator cap in place.
>
>Now I am fairly certain that I have a crack in the block somewhere. No
clue
>where since I am historically an Olds guy as far as cars go and recently
>become a Dakota driver.
>
>Now for the questions:
>
>1. Will a weak anti-freeze solution (old fashioned green stuff) get
>stronger (freeze point depress) as it boils off?
>
>b. Anyone have any idea where the 402 is prone to crack?
>
>iii. Anybody in the greater Northeast know where I can find either a
decent
>bare 396 BBC block or a 396 short block?
>
>Sorry about the rant but it's 0130 heading for 0830 here at work at a power
>plant in NYC.
>
>
>Jim
>69 442 conv in pieces
>03 CC Dak parked out front
>
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