You said you just replaced the head gasket? Did you use an early style
gasket (flat block surface) on a later block with the recess cut in the
block around the cylinders? I accidentally did that a long time ago and
made it about a mile before it blew through. It looked just like your
pictures.
MikeC
> I just pulled the head and it is the head gasket that had gone, in quite
> a major way! Take a look here:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/goalie_john/head_gasket/headgasket.html
>
> It was petrol on the spark plugs and not oil as I first thought.
>
> I think I will first see if I can get the supplier to send me a new
> gasket free of charge, I will also get new studs, nuts and washers.
>
> I'll also try and find a flat surface to test if the head is warped, and
> if so get it skimmed.
>
> cheers everyone for all your help, it all seems like a bit of a storm in
> a teacup now considering it's something so minor, but at the time I
> thought it was something very major that had gone wrong, glad I've been
> proved wrong.
>
> cheers
> John
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