[V8] Retorqueing heads

Paul Jager pjager at telus.net
Fri May 16 16:49:29 PDT 2008


My car low miles engine head gaskets done under warranty - say 40K miles.
By 60K miles it was leaking again.

The dealer selling the car (to me a 60K miles) had the old line "its the
distributor seals, they tend to leak" that was BS..

So after how many winters of 'ol smokey we pull the distributor seals and
they are like new of course. I've put 60K miles on the car, now at 120K.

So yeah milled and grilled it may do the deal, but I would also just hit the
area around the oil port with some really good gasket compound, maybe
urethane based if it exists these days I don't know. I've only done a couple
of head gaskets  - MGB's Fiats and recently a Porsche 928.




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