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Leaky head gasket?

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Subject: Leaky head gasket?
From: Eduard Tieseler <etiesele@metrolist.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:22:14 -0500
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Hello list,
I put Antifreeze in my 66 Herald today, hoping to be able to start it 
for the first time in years, and I see coolant leaking between the head 
and block on the drivers side of the engine dribbling down to the back 
of the block(doh!!).  I pulled off the valve cover, and it looks like 
its comming from between the # 2 & 3 cylinder.  Im pulling off the head 
tomorrow.  The engine has just been rebuilt, but I did not resurface the 
head or block.  Im hoping that at worst I need to resurface the head (I 
don't want to pull the engine again, and I really don't want a cracked 
head [I spent a lot of time porting and polising this one]); or do you 
think my chances of it being just a bad head gasket are any good?  Any 
suggestions or comments?  They are all appreciated!

Oh, and to put icing on the cake: the exhaust hangar on my 65 Ford 
Galaxie broke today as well!

Thanks,
Eduard Tieseler
'66 Herald

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