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Putting my motor back together, anything important?

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  • Start date Start date Jan 3, 2007

89RedFoxGT

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ok, Well some of you might know I been having water/oil mixture problems in my 1990 gt and the guy said the lifter went down, he dove it for about 800miles with the lifter down (for whatever reason) and water/oil wasnt mixing untill he pulled the intake off and put a new lifter in it and put it back together he said it ran for about 5 mins and then it started smokin white smoke and the water/oil was mixing so, i tore it all apart got the heads pressure checked and there fine didnt leak down a bit, head gaskets looked good and everything, block looks great all the cylinders do to from what I can tell. I got all my new gaskets and everything to put it back together tomororw is there anyhting I need to look for that could have cuased it to mix while I got it apart and is there anything I need to adjust when i get it all back together other than the distributor?


thanks
matt
 

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Could of been an intake gasket leaking. Maybe when other person reassembled it, he either installed intake gaskets worng or messed one up during installation.
 
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