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<p>upon installing the head after the first rebuild, did you
re-torque the head after the intial warmup up/cool down heat
cycle?</p>
<p>did you use new head studs? what spec did you torque to? proper
order of studs?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/2/2017 10:25 PM, Chris Simo wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 2, 2017 7:55 PM, "Roger Elliott"
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi All,<br>
<br>
I have a 1980 Spitfire, the head has been rebuilt twice in
the last 2,500 miles. (Shop claims something happened
between first and second rebuild, so not their fault)<br>
<br>
Anyway, I have taken it for a few drives ~60 miles at a
time and all seemed good, so we were going to take it on a
bit longer drive.<br>
<br>
35 miles from home, the temp gauge is pegged, I put in lots
of water - maybe not quite a half gallon. Started up to try
to drive back home, there was lots of white smoke from the
exhaust. I don't think it was smoking much if at all before
it overheated as I was kind of keeping an eye on the car
behind us and did not see smoke.<br>
<br>
I got 3 miles and decided to call a tow truck. It was low
on water again - at least a quart in those 3 miles.<br>
<br>
I used a leak down tester - though didn't really do a real
leak down test - to see if the cylinders were holding air.
All seemed fine except 4 which was not holding air and I
could hear the air coming through the radiator water was
bubbling.<br>
<br>
So, I took the head off expecting the head gasket to be
blown or something obvious with the head.<br>
<br>
Head gasket was fine. My checks of the head with feeler
gauge and straight edge indicated it is flat. I don't see
anything wrong with the head.<br>
<br>
Do I need to have it checked for cracks? Or what else could
be wrong?<br>
<br>
Or could it be that the overheating loosened the head enough
that water got past the gasket?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Roger Elliott<br>
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