Project: Nekid, five two one

[mklotz70]

sweet mike! i'll have to check it out. i'm going to be out for canby, my girlfriend got us tickets for a cruise instead. oh well, theres always next year.....

 

gee.....is that her way of telling you that she REALLY didn't want to go to a dato show??? :)

[ImInked]

hahaha, thats what i thought at first, but the prices of cruises now are so cheap we could pass it up.

[ImInked]

so, i worked pretty hard to get my truck ready for it first show this weekend. i got it all put back together and then time to take it to the pressure wash to clean up. so, i start her up and it sounds like crap. tried driving it and knew something was wrong, plus i was losing water. i shut it down and filled the radiator up again and let it sit. i chack it again and the thing is empty. i suspected that my head gasket was blown since my engine was vapor locked. i pulled the plugs and water shot out of the # 2, 3, and 4 cylinders. it was like a water cannon. anywho, pulled the valve cover to look at my mocha colored oil

 

 

then i found a cool place to put my socket wrench and screwdriver on the top of my drivers front fender

 

 

i dont think my head gasket is supposed to look like this

 

[610SSS]

ThAt head gasket is FARKED:eek:

[Madness]

DAMN! that's the worst head gasket i've ever seen. My head was warped .008 but my gasket still looked good.

 

 

 

in the words of tommy boy "what'd you do?!"

[Jester]

This is soooo freak'n cool. I dig the bare metal job. That is a shit load of work.

 

Sorry to hear about the head gasket, but, at least it happened in the drive way. :D

[ImInked]

thanx guys. i suspected something was wrong when i bought the truck, it just finally let go. it drank a lot of water and was hard to start. i have a gasket set on order and should have it this week. hope to be on the road by the weekend.

[fastdadd]

the gasket shows the problem with #2 and 3 but what is causing water in #4

[ImInked]

i thoguht that maybe the head might be warped and it was getting in that way, but the head is fine. i checked the other side of the gasket and it was starting to eat away into cylinder 4. there wasnt as much water in 4 as there was in 2 & 3. i just bought a fel-pro gasket set at schucks for $34.99. man, that kit has every gasket you need for the whole engine. very impressive.

[Jester]

i just bought a fel-pro gasket set at schucks for $34.99. man, that kit has every gasket you need for the whole engine. very impressive.

 

Damn it. I just spent 70 something for mine. And it wasn't even a Fel-Pro set. :mad:

[ImInked]

yeah, napa was $57.00 and schucks was $34.99. I thought it was gonna be some off-brand, (like joe's gasket set) or something.

[Jester]

Mine was an off brand name. Don't recall the name now. Although I don't have any leaks as of yet.

[ImInked]

i hope you never have any! those things are a pain in the ass to change out.

[521 Dropsun]

Word to that! Tried doing mine. Gave up and took it to a shop. Glad to see you know what your doing. I was still trying to understand the whole concept of a four cylinder. Lived with V8s my whole life. Wish Id met you guys along time ago. Best of luck to you.

[ImInked]

well i havent done one since i was in high school (1981) so i made a couple of mistakes. just created a little bit more work for myself. so, i get to hang out in the garage and wrench and drink beer. not a bad deal