Posted by Howard H. on January 08, 2008 at 04:59:36 from (69.55.25.105):
In Reply to: Re: antifreeze in oil posted by bradley martin on January 08, 2008 at 02:06:48:
I agree that JB Weld is a short term patch, but it can hold up.
I was irrigating corn with a 534 cubic inch V8 Ford truck motor one season - with about a month to go, it blew the head gasket between the two center cylinders on one bank.
I found that the heat had "raised" a reddish area on the block itself about an inch long and 1/32 of an inch high between the cylinders. It was so hard a file would not even scratch it.
Desperate, I tried using a belt sander to smooth it down. As soon as I put the sander to it - it "poofed" into dust and left a very shallow depression instead of a raised area!
I was desperate and didn't have a spare engine big enough to pull that well, so I cleaned everything up very well, put some JB weld on it and slightly snugged the head bolts down. I let it set overnight and then torqued them down fully.
I was amazed, but it finished out the season with no problem running 24x7 at full power.
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