Strange Motor Problem, Oil Consumption

[zrayr]

from my experience with Hylomar, you won't have any trouble with slippage. It is extremely sticky. I use the Hylomar Racing Formula, which is the one that Permatex markets for them.

http://www.permatex.com/products/Aut...ge_Sealant.htm.

http://www.hylomarsealant.com/_resou.../products.html

You will find out about the sticky factor when you try to get it off your finger w/o resorting to caustic gasket remover.

Z.

[Snakebit]

The SCE gasket is .120 thickness instead of the standard .060. It is made for standard ports, so you have to trim the port openings to fit your heads. The SCE part number is 136106 for a small block Ford

[wrogers55]

It's fixed. It runs perfect. No black center plugs, no smoke from exhaust and it idles back down immediately.

For those of you having the same oil consumption/ middle two black plugs, pinging at low speed acceleration.....a new intake gasket fixed the problem completely. Installed it with Hymolar racing blue. Stickiest stuff known to man.

The last issues was refilling the cooling system and getting rid of the air. Lots of posts on strange ways to do it on a small block. After a bit of frustration, I just decided to unscrew the water temp sending unit on top of the manifold and fill the tank until water came out of the sending unit hole. Screwed the thing back in and haven't had a problem since. Water level and temp is perfect.

Thanks for all the help and advice. Taking that thing down to the open valley with the motor in the car was the easy part......unplugging and plugging back in the FI system was a challenge, but I learned a lot. She is good to go and I'm back on the road. Yahoo.

Wayne

[YerDugliness]

Congratulations, Wayne!

Cheers from Dugly !!