patrick

wow i love it when idiots who dont know anything post stuff to hear themselves talk, thats actully a copper headgasket maybe someday when you actully install a headgasket you will know what the diffrent styles look like but anyways......

check the heads for cracks, take it out and get magnafluxed, sometimes you can see the cracks yourself between the valves if u clean them up good they are horrible for cracking heads, i have a boosted 2.3 with a good felpro never had a problem opted not to go with a cometic gasket due to the fact that they can be a real pain in the *** to seal

Tom-Guy

Magnaflux is a process oriented towards steel and other ferrous iron based constructs. There are analagous processes for aluminum, but it's not called magna-anything.

icemike89

No valve cover on these motors, separate camshaft carriers and the timing assembly on the side of the motor has to come off, including the crank pulley timing covers.

patrick

yea sorry my bad that was a stupid moment, but the reason i was thinken maganflux is they brand name magnaflux actully makes the stuff i used http://www.magnaflux.com/penetrant/penetrant.stm you can buy the kit comes in like 3 cans and you can check for cracks yourself

RedCavz

I know I'm such a NOOB!! ---- yourself and get outta the thread moron. Shouldn't you be setting up a robot to weld for you or something? Don't forget to take more pics. Again thanks for the contribution. Kill yourself.

P.s. hotrex says get bent

RedCavz

Thanks for the suggestion. I actually did do that and everything checked out mint. However these don't require retorquing unless of course the block is o-ringed in which case you wouldn't be using it in the first place.

bitchM0VE

Hindsight, but it would have been best to checked the torque on all the bolts before removing it. Always a good idea to retorque a head after a few hundred miles and after overheating the engine, 'specially on a composite gasket engine or 2-stroke. Obviously had coolant leaking into cylinder 4. I would check or have checked the deck with a straight edge correctly, and have the head chemically checked for cracks IF the deck turns out to be flat. Also check the deck of the block for flatness too. Also, that zoomed in pic of the bad plug the head looks a bit pitted. Could have been a bit of detonation that blew the gasket. I'd clean that head and the pistons before reassembling. Make sure everything is clean before assembly, lube the head studs accordingly, and torque to spec. Retorque after 500 miles or so. I retorqued my head after doing a HG (a MLS gasket too), and a few bolts were loose and took more torque.

icemike89

Retourqing the head realy isnt realy a problem if its done properly the first time. Like said the block isnt o-ringed and not like your using a copper 1piece hg.

iceracerdude

I've double checked bolts that were suposed to be a one time thing and found a few needing to be tightened. No obvious pattern to it either, and this was with perfect thread chasing and lube! Take for example: say if some of that extra antifreeze pictured, make it's way down any of those bolt holes...

Toysrme

swing and fail newbie. having to post asking about a headgasket failure after the engine is torn apart and it's blatantly obvious what happened to it.
fail again. how about saving yourself time and asking someone other than your sister how to install a head gasket correctly and save yourself the trouble.