In article <20020304192958.35037.qmail@web9601.mail.yahoo.com>, John
Hobson <goalie_john@yahoo.co.uk> writes
>Just had a call from the garage that is fitting the new engine into
>Saskia.
>
>He says that he has fitted the new engine and got it running, but that
>there was an intermittant miss and he noticed a leak at the back of the
>head. He torqed the head down some more and the leak was better but not
>gone.
>
>The engine had not been run for 5-6 years before I got it, but the head
>gasket on there is new and fitted 5-6 years ago (without any miles on it
>I think).
>
>I don't know much about the internal engine workings, but are the
>symptoms and causes described above feasible?
From bitter experience, yes, when a head gasket goes, an engine does not
run smoothly!
>
>Nothing with that damn car ever goes smoothly...
To give you some idea, Carly blew her head gasket no more than 8000
miles after it had been fitted by a DPO (and possibly quite a lot less).
I think that you'd better get a new head gasket, and follow all the
instructions as to torquing down, and retorquing after X miles to the
letter! :-(
ATB
--
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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