[Healeys] Oil in the water cooling system

Chris Dimmock austin.healey at gmail.com
Sat Dec 11 04:50:56 MST 2010


Send the block to redistrip.

The leak from the oil gallery to the water jacket is an issue. But  
I've never actually seen a block that has that issue.
Never.
Clean the block first.
And when you punch out the core plugs, look at the water jacket  
between the bores.
And take a pic or two. Before and after.
Just humour me Joe. Don't just put you block in caustic. Go for  
redistrip.
No financial interest.
But I wouldn't recommend any other way.
Punch put the welch plugs. Punch out the oil gallery plugs. Measure  
the distance to the bottom of the water galleries from the top of the  
bore, and the bottom of the welch plugs. Observe the gap between bores  
from the welch plug holes.
Then record the same data after it's been to redistrip.
Then send me an email.
;-)



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On 11/12/2010, at 5:23 PM, joe mulqueen <joemulqueen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have my engine sitting in the garage waiting for me to rebuild it  
> this
> Spring.  When I popped out the core plugs I found nearly 1/2" of  
> rusty "dirt"
> in the water jacket.  The block is all standard but the bores are  
> worn.  Are
> there any visual clues as to whether or not to sleeve the oil  
> gallery - even
> if it passes a pressure test?  The last thing I would want after a  
> restoration
> would be to find oil traces in the coolant.
> Thanks for any advice,
> Joe M
> '60 BT7 Project


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