Posted by kopeck on November 25, 2013 at 08:04:56 from (169.244.178.130):
A few months ago I posted here about using bars stop leak on my BN. I had water in the oil, this is after I had already replaced the head gasket.
I did what most suggested, drained the coolant, mixed on the stop leak, refilled and took the BN for a run to get it warmed up. I also changed the oil for obvious reasons. The reason I knew I had a problem is a "gained oil", something this drippy old BN never does. :-)
So yesterday bring the old girl in the shop to make sure the battery is charged before winter sets in. I noticed some steam/smoke coming from the breather, I pull the cap and it's puffing at a pretty good rate. I check my oil and while it didn't gain anything it was milky again, not really milky but you could see there was some antifreeze in it.
So....
Head gasket right? I just replaced it. I do know that at the time I only torqued it down to 65 pounds (per book) but have found out since that there's a revised value of 85 pound.
For the heck of if I pulled the rockers and re-torqued the head to 85 pounds and reset the valves. I fired it back up, and it might just be me seeing things but I don't think it was steaming/smoking like it was before.
I'll stop and pickup some oil on the way home from work. I'll have to watch it still. Sure sounds like a head gasket problem, I've never been able to "fix" one other then then replacing them. Is there anything else I should be looking at?
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