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Frag wrote:Have you compression tested it ?
If the head gasket blows you would more likely have a pair of adjacent cylinders down,not 2 and 4,or cooling system pressurising,oil / water mixing etc…
This could be burnt valves/seats or even just tight valve clearances.
Are you not running this on LPG ?
Valve seat recession ?
metalworker0 wrote:The one to use is K-seal ..that's the one they always recommending on the rover forums for the problematic k-series engines ..and they tried all sorts before coming to the conclusion that K-seal was the best one.
This bodge is not going to be long lived ..its not forever ..it could last a week or could last 6 months
And the pinto engines are not a known gasket blower.
very easy engines to work on though ..and a head gasket change should be very quick work, if no issues found like head needs a skim etc ...
if you've run it around for quite a while with head gasket problems, then it will need a skim.
and if it hasn't got hardened valve seats fitted it will need them
i don't know what the difference are between 1.6 , 1.8, 2.0 heads ..so you'll have to do some research
recommended are PAYEN head gaskets
all the best...mark
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