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wrong gasket

December 1 2008 at 4:46 AM		bill  (Login billinstuart)


Response to Leaky head gasket?
Your leak was at the intake gasket. Was the intake gasket a plastic unit with silicon rings on it? These were used on the vortec style 4 bolt intake systems, and are a very common problem. When reinstalling, they only tighten to 9 ft. lbs. or so.

A head gasket leak to a water passage will blow all the water out of the cooling system in short order. You only have maybe 14# pressure in a closed cooling system, and 2000# of compression pressure in the cylinder. Water doesn't leak into the cylinder except when the engine is shut off.

 
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