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Head Gasket Won't Seal!

By Harry Matthews

The following comes from a recent topic on SmokStak at www.enginads.com/smokstak.cgi. Various individuals started, commented on and concluded the following bulletin board thread.

I have two Waterloo style engines, a Gault and a Majestic. They both make the water in the water hopper bubble on the compression stroke. I have put a new head gasket on the Gault and it still leaks when it is running, but I have not done anything to the Majestic. Neither of them have any cracks in the heads that I can see, but the old head gasket on the Gault showed a bad spot that was causing the leak. Now I cannot get the new gasket to seal completely. How can I get the head gasket to seal, or is there a proper procedure for this? - C.

You might try laying a straightedge across the head to see if you have any low spots. ...

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