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ok, i'm doing a head gasket replacement and the heads are at the shop getting resurfaced. i leave a sheet of plastic over the motor cause its supposed to rain today. i come home from work and the plastic did no good. there's at least 2 cylinders with a 1/2" to 1" of water in them. they've been this way for at least a few hours.

the question: am i going to need to rering the pistons? and also, what's a good way to clean off the deck without scraping it to s#$%? any and all comments are welcome. thanks...

 

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Use a gasket scraper if you don't have air tools. Dry out the cylinders and slap it together, you will be fine.

 

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lol. you have nothing to worry about man. Youll be fine. Do like mentioned above. I live right down the road from you , right by 252 and rt 3 intersection. That was a lot of rain, wasnt it?

 

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that was some nasty rain. thanks for the help.

by the way, what's a good way to check out/test the pistons and rings while the heads are off, without the benefit of a machine shop's worth of tools?

 

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Was your car smoking prior to removing the heads? If you didn't have any smoke coming from the pipes, you should be fine. You can rotate the motor by hand and check the cylinder walls, but other than that....if the car didn't have any blow-by and it didn't smoke, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

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Not sure where you got that info from, but it is wrong. Synthetic oils DO smoke when burned in the combustion chamber, just like conventional oils. They do make "smoke less" oils, but it's not common. Your traditional full synthetic oils, like Mobil 1, smoke just like conventional oils.

Depending on who you talk to, synthetic oils will actually smoke worse on an older engine because synthetic oils can seep through seals more easily than conventional oils....but that is debatable. What is not debatable is the fact that synthetic oils will still smoke if a vehicle has bad rings and seals.

 

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Not sure either ... but just noticed every post he has made was spamming a web address ....

 

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synthetic oils do DO NOT SMOKE LIKE NORMAL OIL SORRY YOU HAVE BENN MISS READ LOL and mobil one is the best for not smoke ill put it to this way you can take normal oil and start a fire with it try and start a fire with mobil one and the fire will go out lol dude dont type if you dont know what your talkn bout pl,eeeeeeease

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Both conventional and synthetic oils are combustable.

If you still have a good crosshatch pattern on your cylinder walls and weren't burning oil prior to the head removal, you shouldn't have any issues. Like Fett said, dry out the cylinders and give it a go. You might want to give the cylinder walls a small coating of oil and crank it over by hand a couple of revolutions before tossing the heads back on just to be on the safe side.

 

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nosjunky
synthetic oils do DO NOT SMOKE LIKE NORMAL OIL SORRY YOU HAVE BENN MISS READ LOL and mobil one is the best for not smoke ill put it to this way you can take normal oil and start a fire with it try and start a fire with mobil one and the fire will go out lol dude dont type if you dont know what your talkn bout pl,eeeeeeease

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i'm just going to have to suggest to never EVER to take any advice from this joker, on any subject.... this is one of many recent threads that have made me realize he doesnt have a clue. about anything. oh. did u know that it says pills11.com at the end of every post u make? hahaha

 

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I just don't like it when someone like him posts bogus information because it can steer someone in the wrong direction. Bad information is the leading cause of wasted money in the automotive world.

It is especially bad when someone like him actually accuses someone else of not knowing what they are talking about, when he seems to be talking out of his ass most of the time.

 

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I would check the ring gaps with feeler gages. I can't tell you the specs, but you should be able to find them. I know its just the top ring that you can check, but its good indication of ring wear. Also I would measure the ridge where the piston stops.