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| | | | Joined: Jun 2016 Posts: 182 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2016 Posts: 182 | Getting close to starting the rebuilt 216 engine. It will be the first time in 25 years it will be running Put antifreeze in today and it appears i have a leaks. One was at thermostat. So I made a new gasket , installed it and refilled radiator. Was hoping that was the only one. Tonight the pool of antifreeze under the engine tells me it's not. darn!!!!!! | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,803 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,803 | Check the weep hole at the bottom of the water pump casting. It's not uncommon for a pump that has been dry for years to have a seep leak. SOMETIMES the leak will seal itself up with a little run time. Unless it's gushing, go ahead and fire the engine up- - - -things will get better- - - -ort worse- - - -but unless you run things dry a few seep leaks won't hurt during an initial run-in. Just put a big catch pan under the engine to keep the floor clean.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
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