Tired and frustrated with the glycol in oil leak..

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The tear-down and saga continues...

The pressure test plates are on and I'm ready to throw the nitrogen to it.

Ernie, Pat & Jamo; I sincerely appologize if I offended anyone with my blantant and somewhat insensitive display of hydraulic roller lifters.. I did it accepting full reponsibility, knowing I may be "lashed" at a later date It shall never grace my avatar



Anyone got a spare Dutch boy laying around?

Well... It looks like the rear head gasket is leaking near the water port. Under coolant pressure I'd get coolant dumping into the intake valley That explains the bit of coolant in the oil. Hmmmmm... wonder what caused it to leak???




Ahhh..... the mystery's solved, NOW WHAT THE HELL DO I DO???

I decided to check the head bolt torque so I set the torque wrench at 85 and hit the bolt directly above the coolant leak. It turned with relative ease, and kept turning ... and turning ... and turning... DARN, a stripped head bolt The rest of the head bolts on both heads are to spec with no other stripped holes.

The other head gasket seeped a bit to, although not as bad as the driver's head gasket.

Soooo..... I guess it's time to yank both heads and have them skim-cut. It'll true them up and give a better gasket surface.

Listen up engine builders and pros! (Rick, Brent, Barry, Keith, George, Tom etc) My questions are;


Can I repair the stripped block head bolt hole, block in car? If so, should I use a heli-coil, time-sert or what??

Am I not getting enough "grab" with the ARP head bolts? Should I switch to studs. If one stripped hole is there others could be close too. I need to be able to pull the heads in the future without yanking the whole motor so, are the head studs easily removable so you can pull the head?

Lastly, I used the regular ol' Failpro 1020s. Is there a better head gasket out ther for an all aluminum motor? Should I be doing something different around the water ports to get it to seal properly? Soooo many questions..

Rick P (and others) you were sort of right about where the leak would be.

Kev, see what I get for being ugly...