Head fire rings

[Rawze]

(05-19-2022 )Scooby d Wrote:  Thanks for the info ! A local shop suggested the fire ring thing to me and I was skeptical.
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If I heard those words from a shop, I would run away from that place as fast as I could. They obviously do not know what the h#ell they are talking about. it leads me to also think that any other garbage they would do to a $40,000 commercial engine that would not be in someone's best interest. This would include how badly they would be at inframing it.

ALSO.. moisture on one of the exhaust valves does not qualify as "a bad head gasket" .. proper testing like I mentioned above needs to be done before tearing into it. For all anyone knows, that "moisture" could be nothing more than typical condensation on an engine that is still not warmed up yet.

Sure, you may possibly have a dropped liner issue with it.. but not doing the proper testing before making assumptions about the head gasket, etc. .. and willing to act on those assumptions alone .. is yet Another red flag against this place if you were to ask me.

Another bigger red flag for them is the fact that they would even slightly suggest it was only a head gasket. - this clearly shows they are completely clueless about the ISX engine with regards to this subject.. indicating that they likely do not properly check, set, etc.. liner heights and do a lot of guessing.. and then end up with repeated engine failures after charging big $$$ to someone with half-arssed inframe practices.

Like I said.. I would have run like h#lell real fast away from that place.

Those are my thoughts any ways.

And what are you calling "pressure in the radiator" anyways?. Are you loosing coolant out of the over-flow tank?. or is it something else?. You were not very clear on that one.

and how many engine hours are on it?.