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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snowbound" data-source="post: 14621" data-attributes="member: 2963">Here’s the head gasket from bank 1. The gasket’s fire rings tell the story. The bottom two you can clearly see that they were sealed. The top which is cylinder 1 shows the fire ring shiny and clean where the compression was pushing into the cooling system. [ATTACH=full]1396[/ATTACH]The gasket was even flimsy and weak in that top corner. Glad all this wasn’t for nothing. [ATTACH=full]1397[/ATTACH]Other than the gasket issue I came across another. Look at the pic above and toward the front of the block between the coolant passages, can see the circle that appears to be residual left over from head gasket? I started cleaning the head surface and I scraped it with a razor scraper and it didn’t seem to get that circle off the surface. I grabbed my metal scraper and used some force trying to see if it would come off and it scratched into the mating surface. WTH?? Grabbed my pick and started scraping at it and it was soft like head gasket material but doesn’t appear to be a coolant passage. I’m at a loss for words on this. So I started searching the web for other pics to compare. Here are a few that are not mine but you can clearly see the same circle imprinted. I’m wondering if anyone has ever seen this before. [ATTACH=full]1398[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1399[/ATTACH]Might need to zoom in to see it on above pics. But here’s a close up of the surface after just using a small pick and screwdriver seeing if I could dig it out. Didn’t want to keep digging if this is a bad thing. Not sure what I’m going to do at this point. Going back out now to see if both sides are like this and I have to clean the heads and check for warpage. [ATTACH=full]1400[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1401[/ATTACH]Any suggestions, comments, anything?? I’m not sure what to think. Epoxy it flat again? Pull engine and have it welded and resurfaced? I wanted to have this done by Saturday, December 2nd.</blockquote>

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