I don't know if one would want to do it
to their Datsun roadster, but I once had
a Lincoln 460 that I thought had a bad
gasket around a water jacket. It turned
out to be pinholes in the timing cover,
which is part of the water jacket as
well. Not really wanting to tear the
front of the car apart to change the
timing cover I looked into some kind of
filler that would work in a wet, very
slimy, anti-freeze environment. I found
one that worked great (and everywhere
else I have used it).
I have seen it under several names. It
comes as a green stick with a white
center, and I usually find it at home
improvement or building supply places.
You just tear off enough to use for the
job at hand and roll it around in your
fingers until the whole ball is white.
Then press it into place and you are
done.
For the water passage I made sure the
finished epoxy application was smooth.
Water was still coming out of the
pinholes when I pushed the epoxy into
the timing cover holes from the inside.
6 years later there were still no leaks.
Tom
69 2000 "Mr. Hyde"
Portland, Oregon
http://www.fransfancies.com/datsun
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Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 5:10 AM
To: SPYDER62@aol.com;
datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: New Roadster owner
If you're real unlucky it could be
corrosion of the head by the lousy
antifreeze available in the 60s and 70s
or that the POs just used water or
never changed the a/f.
I have owned heads that were so corroded
that there were pinhole leaks in
several places.
Mike
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