Originally Posted by
lloyd
ive not seen a running engine that bad before, looks like its been stood for years,and the water( without antifreeze ) has gone from the waterway to the fire ring,and corroded the head,what was the gasket like?
pics can be deciving,but that doesnt look like it will skim out.
can you get det under the fire ring?i would have expected a lot more damage around gap between the valve if it was caused by det.
is it just the one cylinder that has the problem?
the engine had been stood for a while then fitted to a mates car only water put in the engine then but it was only on the road for a while ( 3 weeks ) then after a bit of a nailing one day he parked up then restarted but it was smoking real bad with a misfire and it was down on compression on number 3 which has the worse pitting , the gasked looked ok it was quite pitted on edge of valve and it was a bit pitted on all but real bad on 2 even worse on 3