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Re: Head gaskets

To: "Gegg, Bill" <billgegg@ci.antioch.ca.us>, tigers@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Head gaskets
From: Bob Palmer <rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:40:01 -0700
Bill,

Do yourself a favor and buy a copy of "How to Rebuild Your Smallblock
Ford". I always have it handy when I'm doing a rebuild.

Bob

At 08:31 AM 10/16/98 -0700, Gegg, Bill wrote:
>Started assembling my rebuilt 289 and have been reading the threads on
>intake manifold gaskets.  Which brought my problem to mind.  I am up to
>the part where I install the head gaskets.  I must have thrown out my
>old gaskets which I now need for comparison.  When I put the new head
>gaskets on, it appears that a couple of the water passages in the front
>of the engine block are blocked.  The passages at the rear of the block
>line up perfectly with the holes in the head gasket.
>
>Normal or not?
> 
Robert L. Palmer
Dept. of AMES, Univ. of Calif., San Diego
rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu
rpalmer@cts.com

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