Re: [MV] Well, M37 again, THIS TIME SHE LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!

Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Mon, 9 Aug 1999 19:05:44 -0700 (PDT)

Boy, don't you just love the cheap/easy ones?

I mean the "fixes".............. like the one below..........
oh,..........never mind.

Joe F.

--- JASON GREEN <the_server_sucks@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to all that helped me out with the problem
> I was having with my
> M37. Turns out that the head was not cracked but
> the head gasket had not
> sealed properly. I removed the head and check both
> the block and head with
> a straight edge. both checked out fine. did the
> pressure check again and
> found out it was not leaking around the head again,
> but the rings where more
> than likely stuck, I poured M.M. Oil down each cyl
> while I had the head
> off. I let it sit for about 2 hours. Then replaced
> the head and placed some
> 90 weight oil into the cyl to act as temp rings to
> get it cranked. Adjusted
> the timeing and started to trying to crank her. She
> turned over about 3
> times and fired right up, blew two old wasp nets out
> the exhaust, she still
> has a small skip. didn't run her more than ten mins
> b/c the radiator is out
> of her. I had a water hose hooked up to the water
> pump (a design of my own)
> to keep water running though the engine. She ran
> about 10 mins like I said
> with very little smoke after the oil in the cyl
> burnt out. One ring has not
> seated (I think that is the skip). Will let run for
> a while when I get the
> radiator back in. OVer all she ran great. Thanks
> for all the help,
> couldn't of done it without the list, or for as
> little as I spent on getting
> it going.
>
> By the way, does anybody have one of the water
> bypass fittings for the top
> of the water pump, I need one.
> thanks for the help again.
> jason
>
>
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