Johnny Turbo
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Oooh I cracked a 440 block in the valley area once.
Any idea how it happened?
Oooh I cracked a 440 block in the valley area once.
Yep... My own fault.Oooh
Any idea how it happened?
Dang no fun.Yep... My own fault.
This was 45 years ago. I forgot to drain the block on the drag car. It was a very late night, I was exhausted, and I left the car outside on the trailer. The tracks always wanted us to run straight water, so no antifreeze. The temperature dropped to the high 20's and it was just enough to crack the block.
Yeah we are definitely on the same page with that.Yeah, the more I think about, the heads are coming off. The compression check might help point to a blown head gasket which would be a whole lot better than a cracked cylinder head or block. If you look at the head gasket, the thinnest spots are between cylinders and between a cylinder and oil passages. At this point I'm hoping that it's a blown head gasket or at worse a cracked cylinder head and not your block!!