I took my newly rebuilt 235 out for a ride tonight and saw the same spray of coolant on the firewall that I saw the other night. Originally I thought it was overflow from the radiator. However on further inspection I noticed that the head gasket is leaking coolant on the spark plug side of the motor. It is a very small leak (just a very slight line of tiny bubbles of coolant) but appears to be along the whole side.
There is no foam in the oil and I can't see any oil in the coolant (I know that is unlikely)
I will contact the shop tomorrow to see if I need to re-torque the head but I will likely make them do it.
I know the old style head gaskets needed to be re-torqued after running a few hours but I don't know what kind of gasket they used...you would think they would have told me that.
The head was milled (at least he told me he milled it. I don't know if they resurfaced the top of the block.
It is a shame the engine runs great... I hope this is not a harbinger of things to come.
Anyone have this issue in the past?
Rich
