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  1. 04-23-2012, 10:31 AM #1
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    getting to the bottom of head gasket failure?

    has anyone actually has found out exactly why these things pop head gaskets? I have a 75k mile engine in my parts van and am thinking about redoing it and having the head / block milled for o rings to increase the sealing power of the head gasket, but is are the overheating issues the root cause of the head gasket failure? or is it some other flaw in the engine? I would like to keep this thing from failing for 150-200k miles, and it seems to me that o ringing might be the right idea... anyone have any thoughts on this?
    Last edited by Campwagon; 04-23-2012 at 11:19 AM. Reason: tech revision
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