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head gasket bad only 10000 miles; smoke after re-starting engine after15mile trip
Topic Started: May 16 2011, 10:31 PM (780 Views)
cweed
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Any bad brand gasket that are bad for leaking?
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allmountain40
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did you use new head bolts? If you didnt, this will happen. :smackface
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cweed
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Yes new bolts machine shop instlled head.
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starscream5000
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Got 70 MPG?

Was the head and block decked for straightness?
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Blakexvx
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im curious if there was something left that could be getting burned up in the chambers that could have fallen in during install. if a machine shop installed it and decked it etc.. then it shouldn't have a problem.

did you drive it 15 miles and then started it again and it was smoking? or did you drive it 10k miles then this happened?

if it was a cheap gasket it could have failed but I don't see how that could happen if it was installed properly
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jeaarthur
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I had the same problem and the gasket I had go bad was from Rock auto. It was made in china and after inspecting the gasket you could see where there was a defect and it failed.
Just my two cents. I bought a victor gasket to replace it with and you could see a dramatic difference in the quality.
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cweed
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Fail was after 10k gasket was parts dino. Bot rock auto gasket have not installed
Yet will get victor gasket Android compare .
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cweed
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Thank all for posts.
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