I just checked the head with a stright edge and it is not warped! So
looks increasingly like I just got a bad head gasket (even tho it's
quality brandname Payen) or that the head studs had stretched. Although
when I undid the cylinder head nuts they were on very tight.
One thing I am unsure on the 'retorquing when hot' thing is that surely
the metal would have expanded so that when it cools down the nuts will be
looser than if they were done up cold?
I'm going to phone the supplier tomorrow and say that the head gasket
they supplied failed within 10 miles to try and get a free replacement.
Not sure if that will work though as I can't prove, and am indeed not
sure, whether it was the gasket that was at fault. At the moment I
suspect that it was.
regards,
John
> At 07:31 AM 8/18/02 -0700, John Hobson wrote:
>
> >I just pulled the head and it is the head gasket that had gone, in
> quite
> >a major way! Take a look here:
> >
> >http://www.geocities.com/goalie_john/head_gasket/headgasket.html
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