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DISCUSSION => General Topics => Topic started by: nickmpower on June 15, 2007, 09:10:13 PM

Title: what do you guys think???
Post by: nickmpower on June 15, 2007, 09:10:13 PM

well i put my engine back together a while ago and was pretty sure i had coolant going in to the oil, which happend before i took it apart. the head and block checked out, so i thought it was just the gasket between the timing case and block so i put it back together.

SO then i rebuilt it and there was white in the oil and it seemed coolant was missing. Then i had to go back to school. I just got home from college yesterday and today i used one of those cooling system pressure testers and it only lost about 1/ of a psi at 12psi.

so do you guys think its probably just a crack that opens up when the engine gets hot?

or maybe the white in the oil was just some blow by since the engine is new? i changed the oil and the same happened. Probably about half of a mile on the car

Title: what do you guys think???
Post by: Choking Hazard on June 17, 2007, 10:48:03 PM

What about the profile gasket?