K&M block sealer question?

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Apr 10, 2007 | 06:54 PM

amerimutt

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K&M block sealer question?

Has anyone had any experience with using K&M block sealer? Ive heard the stuff cloggs up heater cores! Is it an amazing engine elixir or a booby trap?

Apr 11, 2007 | 07:02 AM

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It depends. Any type of sealer or stop-leak is a band-aid. I would be cautious around any product touted as a elixir namely due to the fact that there is no such thing.

Apr 11, 2007 | 07:17 AM

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I used it in my daughters car a few years back and it lasted for 2 years when she sold it. Make sure you follow the directions to a t.

Apr 11, 2007 | 11:01 AM

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ya follwed the directions to the letter, I'm changing the water pump and all the pulleys, the tension pully pully was screaming like a red headed step child. the reason I put this crap in was I was getting way to much whip cream on the oil cap and have been for a year now, so I hope this stuff will be the answer to what I suspect a very small hole in the head gasket, but I think I may have sacrificed my heater core, so from what Ive heard a heater core problem verse a head gasket I shoulda dealt with the head

Apr 11, 2007 | 07:17 PM

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you coutaken the heater hoses off and connected them with a piece of pipe or tubing till you were done with the process and bypassed the core. anyway good luck

Apr 12, 2007 | 07:48 AM

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well that woulda been a good idea sand man, if I had thought of it

Apr 16, 2007 | 05:59 PM

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Well I finally finished, not really; finished b4 the storm (Wow lotta rain ) anyway update

the K&M stuff worked ..for now? despite going on an easter egg hunt after easter for a tension pully bolt, the after market one don't provide one, but if I purchased one from the dealer it woulda. seems thow my screaming noise was not only the fan clutch but the Alt bearing shot, but it's still works fine. But I got lucky and found on ebay a used 95amp alternator (motor craft) for $30 The pic of it looked new, haven't got it yet; so I'm knocking on wood. Anyway sorry for the long drawn. The K&M block sealer stopped the whip cream and no more constant tail pipe water