At 09:38 AM 8/18/02 -0700, John Hobson wrote:
>I just checked the head with a stright edge and it is not warped! So
>looks increasingly like I just got a bad head gasket (even tho it's
>quality brandname Payen) or that the head studs had stretched. Although
>when I undid the cylinder head nuts they were on very tight.
>
>One thing I am unsure on the 'retorquing when hot' thing is that surely
>the metal would have expanded so that when it cools down the nuts will be
>looser than if they were done up cold?
>
>I'm going to phone the supplier tomorrow and say that the head gasket
>they supplied failed within 10 miles to try and get a free replacement.
>Not sure if that will work though as I can't prove, and am indeed not
>sure, whether it was the gasket that was at fault. At the moment I
>suspect that it was.
Seems to me you have your photographic proof in an online form that you can
give to the supplier if they have a net connection. The photos are very
hard to dispute a blowout between two adjacent cylinders.
-Vegaman Dan
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