chrissyboy wrote:hi all i see my head today as the guys stripped it down to get the head skimmed.. ,last week we did a smoke test on it and it was lettin smoke through from nunber 3 cylinder to number 4 .. well the test was bang on the gaskt did indeed show signs of letting by between 3 and 4 cylinder. the gasket looked like it was the original dispite the previous owner handing me a bill for it being replaced .. ,thats why i have had so much problems with the car when i first got it ,my guys know that no work was done on it before i got it, plus they have heard bad things about the garage that was suppose to do it .. still i didnt do too bad looing after a car with head gasket trouble and making iut last as long as i did.would still be using it like that if it had not been for that smoke test ..still tomorrow they should be putting it all back together .my guys aint rover specalists or anything to b honest you dont have to be ,all you need to be is a good mechanic and be up to date ..so by the afternoon i should have my car back,running better of course i should get alot more compression when done so should be even faster .. to be honest i didnt think it would be able to run better than what it was runnig ,it was like driving a new car...
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