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Old Dec 8, 2010 | 04:20 PM
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i have a 98 12 valve all mods are in my sig tonight we swap the big turbo from a 27cm exhaust housing to a turbo with a 23cm housing drove it up the road never got over 55psi of boost and brought it bake to the shop and let it run a while came back out and had major blow by look in my radiator and its full off oil could it be an blowed head gaskit os somethin worse i was thinking of re-buildin it cause its got 280,000 miles on it what do you guys think what could i do with the re-build fair as performance goes i thought about making it a 504 is there any other stroker kits out there i tow alot with this truck so i need to keep it streetable let me now what yall think

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so no body wants to give any info on the problem thanks guys your a reel big help
 

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Old Dec 8, 2010 | 04:31 PM
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oil cooler or head gasket.
 
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Old Dec 8, 2010 | 04:58 PM
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head gasket ,cracked head or possible oil cooler

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did you have the head resurfaced.
 

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Old Dec 8, 2010 | 09:56 PM
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sounds like its a blown head gasket
 
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Old Dec 8, 2010 | 10:37 PM
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agreed head gasket
 
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Old Dec 9, 2010 | 08:41 AM
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Bad blow by and water & oil mix would think Head gasket...Unless your unlucky like me and cracked a cylinder wall...
 
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Old Dec 9, 2010 | 11:05 PM
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if it was the oil cooler would it have blow buy real bad i got it all apart took the head to the machine shop to have it check out the head gaskit had two bad places in it but i rely didnt see how that could put oil in the water if anythink look like it would put water in the oil
 
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Old Dec 9, 2010 | 11:28 PM
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Oil pressure is greater then the water pressure so it could be the oil cooler but i've never had blow by when a cooler cut loose
 
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Old Dec 9, 2010 | 11:50 PM
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i wished i could be sure its the head gaskit but in my mind i still think its somethin else
 
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Old Dec 10, 2010 | 12:02 AM
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well if you pull the oil cooler look for one of these
 
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