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So finally today was D-Day to start the pony up for the first time in a little over a month. As many know i blew the passengerside headgasket. After purchasing expensive headgaskets,exhaust,lowerintake,upperintake gaskets. scrubbed everything clean with scotchbrite pads until i saw my own reflection. Had the heads eye examened and used a T-square to make sure they were not warped. Happy to say my buddy and I did an amazing job on laying the gaskets down,used proper gasket makers, pipe dope for the threads, and so on and so forth. It took me and one other mustang faniatic at a decent pace around 3weeks to completely tear down,clean,rewire,purchase $17** worth of new parts, and put everything back together.

Today we topped her off with all fluids, full on oil/coolant. Set the harmonic balancer to 10degrees=base timing. Set my 6BTM around 1 on the dial. After a more lengthy crank then normal she turned over. Once kicked over used the timing light to adjust everything for around a 850-1000RPM idle. No surges besides for the nice Cam. Of course it started smoking from the gaskets heating up. Shortly they dissapated. Shut down, let it cool down, check the dipstick and fluids, (dipstick showed no sign of coolant.) Next we started it again and made a few tweaks but overall it was ideling fairly well. Let the temp get up to around 160ish then gave it a few revs. White smoke is comming out of the passenger tailpipe. This is also the side that the head gasket blew. We let it keep running until the temp was averaging around 165orso. Still white smoke just out of the passenger tail pipe. I am running an H-Pipe also. Shut it down and looked under the car for leaks. There was a small puddle which looks to be comming from under the heads. Checked the oil once more and there was no coolant so that rules the rings being fryed. Im a little distraut as of right now, being that i just bought the car only like 45days ago and i already dumped close to 2gs ontop of the car payment.

Im planning on having everything compression checked to find out maybe what cylinder its to,and run the dye check on the heads and what not. Any one have any clues/tips/tricks/help.



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