jollygreengiant
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| posted on 27/4/06 at 07:08 PM |
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do head gasket, pressure test & skim head, fit new thermostat (cos if its over heated then its suspect) refit head. If liners have moved at all
then it WILL pressurisize on re start almost immediately. Then you need new engine from breakers. If not the you should be good for about another
100k.
Good luck. They are a piece ok cake.
Enjoy.
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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jono_misfit
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| posted on 27/4/06 at 07:39 PM |
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Havent read that article yet, but race car engineering did a big one on the K series last year.
According to that much of its bad rep comes from people not using the right things for it (like the anti-freeze mentioned earlier) and from engine
builders not understanding its requirements.
Just had a look and cant see the issue off hand. Think it was mid last year. Its quite interesting.
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MikeR
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| posted on 27/4/06 at 08:05 PM |
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that article was discussed and posted (or links to it) on here.
Do a search.
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NigeEss
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| posted on 11/5/06 at 05:39 PM |
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I'd like to be a pain and continue this thread a tad longer.
Just been to weigh up a HGF job on an S reg 416 (plastic manifold) 43k on clock
which has emptied the sump into the rad.
I'm assured it didn't overheat...
So two questions,
1 do I get it skimmed
2 is it advisable to replace the head bolts ?
Nige
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