my engine

[josad@domain.elided]

well guys, seams like everything was waiting fo me today 

first, get a sidewall blow out on my geo (daily driver).  jack doesn't
work, and I'm in the boonies.  so i end up doing drive a little wait a
while to where I can buy a jack.  also closest phone.  if i'd been smart
I would have returned home and went back to bed.

instead I decided to go work on my engine.  yesterday I did another
compression test, and these #'s were way diffrent than the test before I
bought it, those all were close to 120

now i have : 2 - 125
4 - 85
6 - 100
8 - 60

1 - 10
3 - 120
5 -100
7 -130

something was majorly wrong, so I decided the best thing to do was to
pull the heads and take a look and decide if I want to repair the problem
or replace the engine (wichever costs less)

so I pull off the intake (BTW, for those that haven't had this
experience, 345 intakes are HEAVY!), and take a look.  think i found the
problem already.  on my intake side of my heads, each of the small ports
were fuilled with ice!  I'm hoping that this is only a gasket leak, but
am going to pull the heads tomorrow anyways.  might as well check the
condition of the valves and top of block and pistons.  

a few questions here.

would a bad or mis-installed gasket let water into these ports?  also, I
want to make sure there's no water left in my engine.  is there a "dryer"
I can use that won't damege my oil pan gasket?  don't wanna change it. 
any special way to remove IH head bolts?  i was gonna use the "star from
center, work around the circle" method.

thanks all.  hope your day was better than mine.  ah well, it's almost
over

joe


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