It may very well be the tool in question. Have not seen one, but that looks like it will lock the two gears together.

Thanks,

Jeffrie

We did leave the steel seal in the system, the flushing was done when cleaning with the cascade.

Any thoughts on teh cam locking tool??

Jeffrie

Oh, we did leave it in the system after the treatment. The flushes were with the cascade cleaning at this point. Any thoughts on the cam locking tool? Going ot find an exhaust gas tester today if I can find one.

Jeffrie

Awesome links! After talking to the tech guys at SS that is the process I used, and it worked great. Will find a test kit and do the cumbustion gas test..........thank you.


Jeffrie

I am pretty sure the steel seal is still good, # 5 is not getting water intrusion. My thought process is that the gasket is just deteriorating (02 with over 100,000 miles) or the head is slightly warped due to overheating once. I see it as at least two seperate leaks, one fixed with the SS which was...

Got it on all, but I do have a couple of follow-up questions before I rip this thing apart <G>. Bear with me on this one. My first little problem was a slight bit of coolant leaking into cyl 5, treated with steal seal and all was/is good. It was only really leaking with residual pressure when you sh...

Newsflash: Disconnected and bypassed the oil cooler, car ran pretty good. Drove to town and back and found no evidence of oil on either nipple. Went ahead and drained and began "cleaning" system with water and a half cup detergent. Was at minute 28 or 30 and loss of oil pressure message fl...

Thanks for the info guys!! So, if the nipples leak oil when the coolant lines are spliced together off the cooler that indicates the cooler needs to be replaced?? Will try to do that today!! And Blackburn.........l;ove the tagline!! Have a farm and will work on almost anything once, and seem to live...

OK, have a bit more info now. Compression is good in all cylinders, no major issues and all seem to be ok. Oil residue in coolant box seems (pretty darned sure) to be oil not tranny fluid. Sorry for the delay, have been on the road and back home now.

Will do a little more research and post back. No coolant in oil (that I can tell) will check tranny. We flushed the coolant several times during and after the steel seal and it was clean as a whistle. I check all of our vehicles about twice a month and the coolant has always been clean until yesterd...