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Re: 2.1L HEAD / Gasket / Block
Posted by Anders (more from Anders) on Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:40:15
In Reply to: 2.1L HEAD / Gasket / Block, Rick Z, Thu, 26 Dec 2002 08:52:56
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If you buy the Elring OEM headgasket, you get what's on your car now. Which is as good as you can get without going into racing stuff.
Your cylinder head needs to be resurfaced though, you can see the marks where cumbustion gasses have been shooting out under the steelring, leaving a little groove in the head.
The new headgasket are not going to seal properly because the steelring have a hard time sinking into those small grooves.
If you look closely, your 2,1L engine have more coolant channels in the block than a 2,0L engine do (those triangular shaped holes on the side of cylinder bore). But all those extra channels are only in the block. If you look at the head, they are all blocked off there.
So your concern about that specific hole in the timing chain area. The new gasket is gonna block that hole and it will not be more of a problem than the other corroded areas on the block.
Or! can you see that the surface on engine block is actually corroded all the way over to the combustion chamber?
It's hard to see from that only picture. If so, you need a new engine block, or have it repaired the way Tom Townsend describe on his site, using brass rods and gas welder. JB weld is not gonna be strong enough to hold off the pounding from combustion chamber.
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