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echo: oldcars
to: ALAN MORRISON
from: LANDON ROBINSON
date: 1998-01-31 08:05:00
subject: Re: muscle design factors

 -=> Quoting Alan Morrison to Landon Robinson <=-
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 -=> Quoting Landon Robinson to Alan Morrison <=-
 
 LR> engine warmed up, it wasn't ordinary steam from condensation in the
 LR> mufflers it was alot more out one side than the other.
 
 AM> That might be caused by the thermostatic control on the passenger side
 
 LR> That is true I hadn't thought of that.  It also does that if I ad
 LR> water while the engine is running.
 AM> That doesn't sound good...  My brother once got a Taurus real cheap
 AM> that ran a small stream of water out of a hole in the muffler.  We
 AM> figured it had a cracked head and he took the head and got it pinned
 AM> and welded.  A few weeks later it overheated and started doing it
 AM> again.  Never cared much for Fords, or 4 cylinders.
I still havn't tried to figure out what is wrong with it. I just parked it
and had the insurance switched to my other vehicle. The first thing I'm going
to do is a compression check to see if it is blown head gasket.  If that 
isn't it I will look else where.  I am problably going to pull the heads
anyway just to make sure there are no cracks on the underside of the heads
and ora cracked cylendar wall. It seems to have a lot of power even though
the oil is now brown/white but it is staying parked anyway until it is fixed.
Every car has its problems (good and bad) too much horse power can be 
considered a problem if you live in the middle of a big city. I own both a
Chevy and Ford while one has easy to remove valve covers and other has an
easy to remove water pump. :)
Ttyl,
Landon
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