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A67StangMaster

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ok yesterday me and a buddy tried to get my car running agian, after letting it sit throught the long winter. Well we got it to turn over, it was rought. the starter was having a hard time turning it over. But still it would not start. At first we thought in was a ignition problem but we had a spark coming. Next we tryed the gas. I had emtyed the tank before winter had come with the drain plug, So its not a gas problem. I pulled the new spark plugs out to see what would come out of the holes, When i turned it over we got some like water, oil, gas, mix coming out of the spark plug hole??? what could this be from? do i have a leak in the heads somewhere? well now were in the process of pulling everything apart with the heads to see whats up. we first pulled the intank manifold out I saw that excesive rust had build up on the ports.
I am going to pull it apart and try to clean everything back up and try it one more time. hopefully i dont find a bad valve or something.
 

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Did you have any antifreeze in the system? Does the cooling system hold it's level when full?
 

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I have a leak in the radiator its a small one. but other then that i fill up the radiator then try to turn the engine over then i looked at the radiator agian its eats about a gal everytime i try to turn it on.I thought it might have been from the small leak i got but i dought it.

Good thinking I never thought about checking that.

well my friends coming over agian were pulling the Heads off right now.
 

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My concern is that you very well may have cracked your block if it froze over the winter.
 

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Location SJ, California. Not known for brutal winters, but I suppose in might get below 32*F or 0* Canadian.
 

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Whoops! Didn't look at the locale!

In my experience up here It usually takes about 10-14 hours below freezing to ruin a block. Unlikely that would happen in San Jose last year.
 
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Sounds like a head gasket: hopefully it didn't warp the heads or damage the block.
 

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ok yesterday i pulled everything apart looks like i installed the head gaskets on wrong. well today the day i am about to retry everything.. I will have a video up later tonight just to show if anything gose wrong.
 
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