blew a head gasket couple months ago replaced it....put arp studs in........shut truck off last night heard some bubbling noise looked in coolant resovoir...it was overfilled and had some bubbles.......this is the second head gasket ive blown..im running H&S xrt on the 120 tune with aggressive turbo tunning and thats all....what do i do next can i fire ring this thing or what???

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will a heavy duty marine head gasket work like on the 5.9l.

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sorry to hear that bud good luck with the fix

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does anyone know if you can fire ring these heads

I heard rumors that you can but dont know for sure compcowboy should now pm him

i don't see why you can't O-ring the head..... if it were me i would see if the machinist could cut the block while he is at it and O-ring it too. that is what i plan on doing when mine finally lets go..... (knock on wood)

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well got my Arp 625's today guess the cheaper version i bought th first time wasnt strong enough...so puttin it back together tomorrow so we will see

so now im confused,,i thought if you blew the head gasket you would have noticable oil comming from the head area? what does bubbling coolant in the coolant rez have to do with it,,please explain???

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If your popping head gaskets that easily, I would suspect that either the block deck or the head face isn't flat. Even the "cheap" ARP's should be able to hold way more than you are throwing to them.

When a head gasket fails, it is coolant, not oil, that is released, usually right into the cylinder/combustion chamber of the piston. Bubbling coolant indicates exhaust gasses being pumped into the cooling system via the breached head gasket.

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got the head checked the first time said it was fine.....got it checked again this time it was fine again we straight edged the blocka nd it was ok...H&S told me it was due to extreme drive pressure from the stock turbo and due to exhaust temps constantly around 1500

The EGT's are probably causing it.... time to start looking for a better intercooler or something.

popping your head gasket can be oil... i blew mine right in front of #1 oil leaked everywhere... blew another one behind #6 and it leaked anti-freeze and bubbled in rez... just depends where it goes out at..

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it all depends on what part blew of the gasket, and how much was taken out

hope it does good now

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You are runing to hot keep it at 1400. I never run my truck over 1350 more than a few seconds.

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