Thread: cracked block?
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Old 02-07-2004, 01:13 AM   #21
GSXMEN
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Originally posted by phantom dually
Have you tried a can of block sealer?? Try it it cant hurt. I am having this same problem with a olds 330 v8 that a friend of mine had built for his father in law. I think that when the valve job was done and they installed news seals that it was drilled out very very close to the water passage.
Valve seals shouldn't have anything to do with leaking (they go over the guides). By any chance, did they install hardened exh. seats?

Many times, exh. seats are installed too deep - going into water.
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