Re: Tom's 392 - head gasket

[tsm1@xxxxxxxxx]

> on 8/5/03 10:18 AM, tsm1@domain.elided at tsm1@domain.elided wrote:
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>> No obvious (to me) signs of headgasket failure. I'll get pictures.
>
> When a head gasket goes, it usually, (trying to say always) either lets
> the
> gas into the coolant, or leaks across into the adjacent cylinder. Your
> compression was OK in number 5, so that's not the leak, if there is one.

That was my thought, too - I would've seen smoke, or noticed some type of
"problem" other than a flakey vacuum gauge.

But at the time, a shot gasket was a hoped-for easy fix.. and I wanted to
rule it out for thoroughness, too.