[TR] Smoking TR3 after replacing Head Gasket

[Allan Reich]

   Allan Replies:
   Randall thanks for your help .. see below for answers.  I am going out
   now  to  start it up again, heat it up and do the 2nd torquing down of
   the head .. maybe that will fix all (just dreaming)
   Randall wrote:

I have just replaced a blown head gasket and now have a smoking TR3 !

Where was it blown ?

   Between 3 and 4

After filling it with fresh oil, I started it up and there
was lots of
smoke .. it was not blue or too smelly.

>From exhaust or crankcase breather ?

   From Exhaust

 After 1/2 hour of running, it was till smoking the same amount.

Idling or being driven ?

   Idling, then lots more when you depress accelerator

I checked the dipstick and I did notice tiny bubbles (maybe three or
four on the dip-stick) ... must be residue of water that was stuck in
the pan and other hidden storage areas.

IMO if you can still see water after 1/2 hour, you've still got a water
leak.  What happened to the level in the radiator after cooling ?

   Radiator seems ok .. but I know there was residue in oil pan

- Do you think just changing the oil will fix things?

Seems very unlikely to me.

- Is the tiny bit of water in the slipping by the oil rings?

Not sure of the question; should be no water either above or below the
rings.

   I  thought  there  was  always  a  minute  amount  of oil taken up the
   cylinder  walls,  I was wondering if the water would slip by the rings
   easier than the oil

- Can I just run it and it will eventually burn/steam off?

Again it seems unlikely; but I guess you don't have much to lose by trying.

IMO it would be unusual for a head gasket to blow between the water jacket
and the openings to the crankcase; more likely you have a cracked head or a
leaking "Figure 8" gasket.  If it is the head gasket, then most likely
something else is mechanically wrong, like the liners protrude too far or
the head/block are not flat or possibly a damaged (stretched) head stud.

Randall

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