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Blown head gasket, or worse? -Reply

To: Spitfires@Autox.Team.Net, dware@uk.ibm.com
Subject: Blown head gasket, or worse? -Reply
From: KEVIN EDDINS <eddinsk@NRISO.NOLA.NAVY.MIL>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:32:33 -0600
I can't think of it being anything else other than the head gasket.  Unless
someones been putting water in your crank case.

Kevin

>>> David Ware <dware@uk.ibm.com> 10/30/98 08:10am >>>
I've noticed this twice now, a creamy substance in the rocker  cover,
mainly
around the oil cap.
Is this an indication of a blown head gasket?

I've checked for other signs, I've run a compression test and they all
seem
fine,
each within 10 percent. No loss of coolant (as far as I can tell) and there
isn't any air being
blown into the coolant expansion tank.

Am I on the right track with the head gasket?

David Ware

77 Spitfire 1500 (UK)

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