Water in #6 cylinder?

homecloned said

Thanks DarTT. I was just cleaning any extra oil off my pistons for the machine ship and noticed a cracked skirt on the #4 piston. :angry7:

AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Time for a beer or 6.

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A tip from one of my old managers was to take a fine/very fine coarse pad and very gently run it over it in quick passes to make sure everything is clean on the mating surfaces and seals nicely and then used silicon the headgasket on both sides to ensure sealage. This is how I was taught to do it by an older gentleman who is well-known in this area for his quality of worksman ship.

And to those of you that are immediately gonna step up and bash silicon, I saw it used on an intake and the customer came back a month or two later because of a stuck valve, after the bolts were removed on the intake. It wouldn't budge nor was it even weeping a drop of antifreeze. It ended up taking, not one, but two prybars to get this intake to budge. It may be a pain to get off, but it does its job wonderfully.:-D