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RE: Blown head gasket, or worse? -Reply

To: "Spitfires (E-mail)" <Spitfires@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: RE: Blown head gasket, or worse? -Reply
From: Mike Welch <mikew@turbopower.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:03:51 -0700
I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but it happened on my Jeep a
few years ago.  The oil dipstick had worked loose, and I drove through some
wet spots (OK, I was puddle jumping in water up over the wheels<g>). The
water went into the crankcase through the dipstick tube and caused the same
white gunk.

Mike Welch
'68 +/- Spitfire MkIII
'60 Jaguar MkII
http://home.turbopower.com/~mikew  

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Milotay [mailto:mark.milotay@onthemark.bc.ca]
Sent: Friday, October 30, 1998 2:18 PM
To: Spitfires@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Blown head gasket, or worse? -Reply


You mean that you are not supposed to be putting water in your crank case?

At 08:32 AM 30/10/98 -0600, KEVIN EDDINS wrote:
>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?


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