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[QUOTE]Originally posted by AaronC: [QB] Just curious why you'd say it's ring related? When I redid the intake because of an oil leak I had a leak on a water pump hose and the car heated up pretty good. Almost got to the top but I shut it off pretty quick. I popped the hood and sure enough I was leaking coolant all over the timing cover. I let it cool down then topped off the radiator and limped her home and tightened the hose. Ever since, I've seen those bubbles in the overflow tank. Not sure what that means. #7 cylinder is down on some compression (at least half) and haven't checked the others yet. If a gasket did go it's probably cylinder to cylinder. I've been experiencing a bad miss and that's what's caused this tear down. The car was running like a champ except for the bubbles but maybe it finally let go. Anyway I'm stumped and my feeling is I won't know what it is until I pull it all apart. It'd be nice if I didn't need to though. I will do a compression test, then try a leak down and see what comes of it. I wish it was a valve spring or rocker issue but that's not looking promising. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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