Please tell me it's not the head gasket...?

[andrewwynn]

Originally Posted by srmmmm

1970 Firebird under restoration - reassembly starts as soon as they get the vibration out of the engine in the Olds 442 occupying the bay......

Good to see *some* mention of movement on the firebird.

[Purplefade]

Originally Posted by Auto Parts Guy

My expansion tank just let go at the seam too, driver side. I went ahead and did a few other things while I was in there. Fixed and rolling again. Easy job, just a ittle messy.

I'm just like that. If I'm going to be in there to fix that, and that and that and that has to come off to do it, unless they're non-wear parts, brackets, clamps, etc, it all gets replaced My wife thinks I'm insane but for as much wrenching as I do on this thing.. I'm only going in once, and "that" job, and everything associated with it, is done!

[Purplefade]

Just received confirmation from UPS that my new expansion tank has arrived and is waiting on me at home - very much looking forward to tossing that on this evening, getting it bled and back on the road.


Been a couple of years for me, but just about 30k miles or so ago I did the entire cooling system over hall so I'm pretty comfortable with just popping the expansion tank on at this point and calling it good


This will actually be my 2nd expansion tank, 3rd on the car, original crapped itself at about 60K miles and got replaced and now the replacement has crapped itself at 120K miles... must be 60K tanks, LoL...


Anyway, in my down time I've installed the new brake booster line and check valve, Luyed SUPER bright LEDs in my backup lights and gave it a bath, going to toss that ET on and finish detailing it tonight - so that I can take it out drive the S**T out of it when I'm finished