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Old 06-30-2020, 07:14 PM   #3
Old Truck Man
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Re: 1988 C1500 blown head gaskets

I suspect you have at least one bent rod. When water gets into a running engines combustion chamber it will not compress. So the connecting rod bends. And then that piston becomes lower down in the bore at TDC and doesn't have the proper compression ratio. You should have rotated the engine over when you had the heads removed and made certain every piston came up to the proper distance.
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