Re: Big smoke cloud and hood removal

[Scott Machalk <smachalk@domain.elided>]

>>I was thinking probably most likely valve seals then stem seals. Would bad
>>valve seals cause a vehicle to burn lots of oil?
>
>Well I'm not sure what you mean by valve seals... valve guides???  If the

Oops. Yeah, I meant valve guides, not stem seals. 

I looked in my Chilton manual and the next thing to troubleshoot is to hook
up a vaccuum gauge. I went and tried it. I've never been able to get this
to work right. Where am I supposed to hook the gauge up. I hook it up to
the manifold and I get zero at idle and it'll climb up to 15 or 18 if I rev
it slowly. If I rev it fast it only goes to 10.

But, I think I have a different problem than I thought. When I went to
start it, it sounded like it hydro-locked on me for a second. Then as it
ran for a minute I started getting water out of the exhaust.  I guess the
smoke was whiter than it appeared. It seems like I have a blown head gasket
(I hope). Time to pull the heads anyway.


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Scott Machalk                              Peshtigo WI 
smachalk@domain.elided                       http://www.coolday.com/scout/

1979 Scout II 345 727 Rallye Gold   
1979 Scout II 345 3sp (parts truck)
1984 Plymouth Reliant SE (winter car)
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