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Jul 29, 2005 | 04:51 PM

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Gordilocks

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hey guys,
thanks john for the info... it's been helpful and insightful.
I just got back to the city from a long stay in country. I had pulled the plugs to clean and check them out. The first two were all black with soot (cly 1 & 5). I believe I am due for a ring change and the info on the manifold gasket has me wondering about that also. I just got through purchasing a gasket set with all gaskets so I'll be replacing several of them. I'm waiting for the rainy season to really kick in so I can put the ford in my warehouse and take it apart... during the rainy season in the yungas I rely on my trusty ol toyota 79LC. Thanks for all the info, guys. I'll be updating eventually. Meanwhile, like cypress hill says, roll it up, light it up, smoke it up.... I'm smokin it up pretty bad.

p.s. here the noxious fumes don't really cause too much disturbance, sadly we're pretty used to it... it just pains me and my gringo upbringin

Jul 30, 2005 | 03:55 AM

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john grinch

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if you have a air compressor pull all your spark plugs rig a rubber stopper or somthing and blow 80 psi of air in through the sparkplug hole while at top dead center i.e. both valves closed if air comes out exhast bad exhast valve out of top of carb bad intake out other sparkplug hole blow head gasket out of radiator cap bad head gasket out of dip stick bad rings or hole in piston

Jul 30, 2005 | 06:02 AM

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Jul 30, 2005 | 11:26 AM

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Pull out the spark plugs and inspect the condition of the spark plugs. The spark plugs which has white build up, is the cylinder where the coolant leakages is occuring. If all the plugs look the same, also, give the truck a compression test. You can do this will checking and inpecting and replacing the spark plugs.

Oct 22, 2005 | 01:54 AM

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john grinch

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hole in piston

it finaly got so bad i pulled the rebuilt head off. there was a hole in #6piston i think a peice of the dowel must of fell in next time i put in a big head like that six i will ask for help i mannaged to get a junkyard block and put my new head on it with help and the blue smoke came back after a week i pulled the head everythinglooked fine but lots of blue smoke and the blowby is like an exhaust pipe showing bad rings? can the head do this if machined wrong or is it just my luck to pop in a old block with bad rings it.the new block appeered to idle well intill it ran out of gas