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Re: Help needed - 3S-GTE head gasket	Thu, 23 December 2004 14:39

Thanks for all the info here guys, much appreciated. Well my beast has taken a turn for the worst... after looking at the spark plugs and finding not a thing wrong with them (ie. normal burn pattern, no oil fouling, no steam-cleaning...) and testing the thermostat, reassembling the whole lot again, the radiator coolant (when the car's running on cold idle) is like dropping an ice cube into a glass of soft drink. Very bubbly and effervescent. If the head gasket ain't shagged, and I've been told by some people that 3S-GTE's don't usually do head gaskets that easily (but MR.2 is testament that it can happen), then they say it's something to do with the block or head warpage. Puffy, I tried getting to those damned bolts, but whatever room you have in a Celica GT-Four, consider yourself lucky that the installation is nowhere near as tight-fitting as a drop-in on a RAV4. The throttle body runners are about half-inch away from the firewall, and I even had to get a replacement clutch master cylinder that was short enough in order to get it to fit onto the firewall without hitting the (rather sizeable) throttle body. Even the bloody radiator is a right bitch to take out without having to drop the entire front bar abd grille guard I have on there (Toobs knows about this). Brad, I never had the head gasket replaced. Initially it was ruled out as a cause of the initial overheating problem I had after the thermostat was replaced and a heatshield was added. The temps were fine until a few weeks ago when we pulled apart the wiring loom and something made the secondary thermo fan go open-circuit. After this, I noticed the temps rise once again, and now here we are. BTW Toobs (or anyone), how much is a set of 10 ARP head studs (or a head stud kit)? [Report message to a moderator]

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