Sunday, May 23, 2010

Sad times

The engine was running really hot and kind of stupid, so I did a compression test. Bad compression on 6/8 cylinders. There was also water in the oil, and lots of thick, white smoke billowing out of the tail pipes.




Head gasket: FAIL

So now I get to save up to buy new head gaskets (cheap), resurface the cylinder heads (cheap), and while I'm at it, I may as well replace the intake and exhaust valves (cheap) and the rocker arms (cheap). Add 10 hours to get the thing all apart, replace the pieces, and back together (expensive), and I'm not going to be working on this beast for a while.

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