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Originally Posted by Effduration
Yeah, that might have been my problem. Unlike the other three M54 heads I have, all of which have been through the machine shop. This head I bought from a guy who bought it off ebay from a reputable, frequent, seller of m54 heads- I had the Ebay receipt. It had clearly been machined and I did check it for flatness along with a cursory visual check for cracks...
My hope is that I will be able to see the problem when I pull the head, and that the problem is in the head and not the block..At least I know where to look - cyl 6 area.
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Yes, my condolences too. I'm now about 2 years and 6k miles since my head gasket job on my 2001. Sounds like you and I did very similar things. VANOS rebuild, TimeSerts, etc.
I know cylinder #6 is a little tough to work on, just being so far back in there, so doing the TimeSerting and torquing, etc. are just a little harder to do with less clearance above the block.
On the careful head inspection, even the YouTube star 50skid almost got burned by a cracked head in his M54 HG video series. Easy to miss, especially if it was maybe such a small crack that it did not leak for 5k miles.
Hopefully things go well on the recovery.
