blown head gasket
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From: maryland
blown head gasket
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i have a problem...this morning when i took her to work i noticed a high volume of sweet-smelling steam coming from the hood at stops (obviously burning coolant), and upon inspection am noticing what looks like a coolant leak between the right head and block on the cylinder closest to the firewall. Also noticed some little black spots in the coolant in my radiator,which is slowly draining from somewhere (possibly said opening). this leads me to believe i have a damaged head gasket and would like a few experienced opinions before i pump out the 200+ dollars for a full gasket kit/bolts for the upper half and headers that will replace the factory headers that are now rusting due to said leak (may as well since i'll be taking the heads off anyway).
hope you guys can help.
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i have a problem...this morning when i took her to work i noticed a high volume of sweet-smelling steam coming from the hood at stops (obviously burning coolant), and upon inspection am noticing what looks like a coolant leak between the right head and block on the cylinder closest to the firewall. Also noticed some little black spots in the coolant in my radiator,which is slowly draining from somewhere (possibly said opening). this leads me to believe i have a damaged head gasket and would like a few experienced opinions before i pump out the 200+ dollars for a full gasket kit/bolts for the upper half and headers that will replace the factory headers that are now rusting due to said leak (may as well since i'll be taking the heads off anyway).
hope you guys can help.
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From: Ohio USA
If you want,bolt on gt 40 heads and intake or just heads and headers for now since you may not have the funds.
They go for about 250-325 a pair, then get a felpro .039 compressed thickness heads gasket to offer higher compression $40,THEY ARE TUFF.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/87-95...3A1|240%3A1318
The gt-40 Intake is about $200 Used or less.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FORD-...3A1|240%3A1318
They go for about 250-325 a pair, then get a felpro .039 compressed thickness heads gasket to offer higher compression $40,THEY ARE TUFF.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/87-95...3A1|240%3A1318
The gt-40 Intake is about $200 Used or less.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FORD-...3A1|240%3A1318
Last edited by aode08; Jan 20, 2009 at 11:15 AM.
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