Helping Waterloo out with an inframe ...

[Rawze]

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NOTE: This whole thread is the sad story of an engine/truck with an all out, no expense spared, $42,000 inframe done by a high-end OEM repair facility ... Then it ending up in my driveway with a blown head gasket after only 80,000 miles! ...
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- Well, Mr. Waterloo showed up here right in the middle of me trying to finish up my taxes for the year and do all that and he is one eager to work guy. -- He likes to do his own thing and jumped right onto taking things apart. Before he got started though, we checked out his coolant pressure issue just to be sure. It is clear when you put a pressure gauge on it that it is building combustion pressure so that rules out anything but something internal to the engine.

- We let it sit over night with 22-PSI pressure on it until next morning. Low and behold, we searched and searched and there was zero signs of coolant getting into the oil at first. Sometimes it is obvious, but sometimes it is hard to find. We wiped everything down and spun the engine a few times over by hand (with long wrench) and could not immediately find any kind of coolant intrusion problem even though it is clear that there is a problem with the head, a gasket, liner... something. After looking and wiping things down under the engine, we decided to turn it by hand some more ... slowly to see if we could get a better view at each cylinder. While turning the engine over by hand very slowly, when piston number 5 came up on a compression stroke, instead of a dry "hiss" sound, it started to gurgle, and tiny droplets of water/coolant started to pour down the inside of the liner wall. Number 5 piston was leaking coolant out of the bottom of the piston. So far this tells us that there is a problem in the head or the head gasket at #5 cylinder area.

- We went to Mr. Hags shop and got him to price up a head and overhaul kit. He looked everything up and to our discovery, Mr. Waterloo has the WRONG OVERHAUL KIT in his engine from when it was built by the stealershit. This engine only has 80,000 miles on the "top-notch, top tier" inframe that he paid more than $40,000 dollars for .. , now it has failed YET AGAIN. We discovered from his paperwork that even though he has a big CPL (600-hp) engine, the stealershit mis-ordered the parts badly and crammed small CPL parts into the engine + a valve cam that is incorrect. -- What a Lovely job these incompetent basta23#drsd do!...

We have yanked the hood off it and are now in the process of tearing it down, but I have to do paperwork, so he will be on his own a bit out there until I can finish my taxes and other things here. Hopefully it will not rain too much, but we are prepared to cover things when it does.

- We have had the beer flowing and the good food too. I made spaghetti and we made BBQ and everyone is enjoying being here. Waterloo is truly a cool guy.