garthpro

thanks. I will print all these suggestions out for monday. after the pressure test on heads. seems odd that the problem got worse. I gotta think it was something we did wrong, there was coolant in all the cylinders, not like the first time when it was obvious in only #2

Ahhh! That could be it. They were def leaking at HG, the crack was evident. But I will check intake ports. Thanks for the info. I have to wait til monday, I'll let you know if that was it. garth

that will be monday! I had them face the heads b4 re-install. but dude at shop seemed to be against pressure test/ he was a solid older guy. knew his stuff. solid company as well. 65 years. said that unless I ran the crap outta them HOT, they were probably good. so we decided to return to test heads as well as Question the gaskets Monday. THey looked really thinn compared to the old ones. the impreg part looked to me like paint. where as the old ones were meaty! they came in a valve grind kit.?????

I just pulled apart my '00 obw., it was the driverside back. obvious crack. but when we reassembled it. to allth ose fancy hookey-pookey moves, it was worse? could it be that some aftermarket gaskets are just crap>? they do look alot thinner? the metal is the same, but the impregnation(?) is wayy thin on the new ones! your thots? garth

Uhhh. can someone help me out here. I had an overheat, 2000 OBW, at 186k miles the other night. ok, I have a friend who is really really good. he does all kinds of fixes, in fact he just did a 96 2.5 phase I. so I figure I tow it home and we get dirty. well I took the heads to a machine shop. they looked good, but we took a thousandth off. New gasket kit, from some engine rebuild shop. very reputable shop. put it all back together. same shiite. exhaust in coolant!!! at this point I thinking load it up, drive it somewhere, and dump it. Hello insurance! does anyone have experience here? I mean, crap, I am thinking it looked wayyy worse when we pulled the heads the second time! the first time the fluid showed a bit in #2, and there was an obvious crack bt the cylinder and fluid. you could see charring/ now it is bad on the other side of the block (passengers) both cylinders over there. no visible cracks tho? could it be the gaskets? were junk?