New Head Arrived

[Mark Nixon]

Funny Mark! Now I have that insidious song stuck in my head!

Yeah, Pete has a habit of letting the dogs out on things.

Mark.

[PToombs]

[mhuppertz]

Will, I can now hold it until defuel and no antifreeze comes down the side of the block from the head, now it comes out of the radiator!

[PToombs]

Are you bragging or complaining?


I did see the other thread that issue.

[mhuppertz]

I held it to the floor and it went 90 in 4th, so I guess the studs are working!

Probably bad luck on the radiator, and a pressure relief wouldn't really help the radiator pressure, but I know I am probably cranking way too much pressure into the block at high speed.

[dazedandconfused]

Have you retorqued the head since you have put some miles on it?

[PToombs]

IDK, I've had mine to 94 in 4th several times and never had a problem. With the radiator. I can turn 3500 rpms too.

[mhuppertz]

I think what did it was going up a huge hill on the freeway (pulling a Scumaro on a trailer) at 85 in 5th. Actually there were two of those monster hills. We didn't notice the leak until we were headed back down the mountain to get fuel.
For some reason I have poor self control when pulling heavy. As long as the EGT's are OK I like to crank on her.

[mhuppertz]

Got to get it fixed this week because I am pulling an old Dodge Travco motor home from 4,700ft to 7,500ft.

[PToombs]

Keep your foot out of it! There's no reason to go 85, the ferds you are passing are only going 50, the empy ones anyways!

[mhuppertz]

I thought I might grow out of it, but I'm 52 now and still jamming.

[PToombs]

I'm only a year behind you, and I haven't changed yet either! Tim Worline was at SOP a few years ago and described me as a 19 yo with 30 years of experience to somebody. I laughed my ass off that he remembered I had mentioned that once on here.
The other thing is what my mother calls the family deformity, the right leg is 2 inches longer than the left. The cops threw up a roadblock for her on the interstate one time.

[mhuppertz]

I remember a high school friend bringing over his '69 Road Runner 4 speed car and letting my Mom drive it. She immediately burned rubber down the driveway and out on the road.

[PToombs]

Love it! So you inherited it too!

[mhuppertz]

Love it! So you inherited it too!

Yup. Between her and my dad doing donuts in every available snow covered parking space....