<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:45 PM, TERRY SMITH <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:terryrs@comcast.net" target="_blank">terryrs@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><u></u>
<div><p>... there could be a crack or a failure in the gasket that could widen at operating temperature enough to take a strong running engine down to shutdown?<br></p></div></blockquote><div>I, for one, doubt that is what is happening. I have certainly driven with a head gasket that was well & truly blown. Not pretty (not even pretty smelling) but it takes a lot to shut down an engine. No fuel or no spark are the usual suspects.</div><div><br></div><div>But w/o some more data it is mostly guesswork.</div><div><br></div><div>Geo </div></div></div></div>