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I could not agree more. Dorman has a stranglehold on small OEM type (note I say type, not OEM, they look same but definitely aren't!) parts, unfortunately, they apparently contract with Chinese shops that use some of the crappiest materials on the planet. Their plastics suck, their rubber products instead of stretching like rubber should simply tear with hand force only, and not a lot either. Some steel parts can work OK but others are so low quality steel that they fail very quickly. Their front end parts like balljoints are absolute garbage, don't let the lifetime warranty fool you. No one makes replacement plastic coolant reservoirs, Dorman saw that as a market and upon filling it, gets back almost every reservoir they sell when they crack to fail, often in two weeks or less, many in a day. They make parts for OEM, but hoping they are somewhat better quality, certainly no guarantee of that though. I wouldn't trust even a junk motor to one of their thermostats, I've seen them commonly stuck open right out of the box.
At the last of my time at the store they were moving into instrument panel replacement gauges in the hundreds of dollars, every one I sold came back almost instantly as having one thing or another wrong with it.
As long as no competition comes forward to force them and other companies like Anchor mounts to make better quality parts they will continue to cynically supply the world with worthless crap and charge top buck for it. I go out of my way to avoid products from either company having sold and returned so many of them. Buyer beware!
The first two housings I had were OEM housings that was the reason for the change to anything but factory. Then when I got the Dorman housing I found out that the housing was a factory housing with a worthless pre-installed thermostat (that didn't work) and what looked to be a little thicker slice of inner tube seal. But Dorman didn't mold the housing I got, just repackaged an OEM.
Which brings me to a suggestion for others here, if you end up with a Dorman housing I for sure wouldn't leave there cheap thermostat in it! the one in mine never OPENED the first time!
Dorman products suck, one reason people change housings so much. They use absolutely crap plastic. I sold enough of them and then warrantied almost all of those very soon after.
Permatex #2 was always gasoline soluble, I used to clean it off parts in the '70s by soaking them in fuel. RTV is too but in a different way, it doesn't dissolve but releases its' grip as it shrivels up into mush. Both seal and survive based on the fact that once pinched in place the solvent can only attack it in a thickness of say 1-2 mils. Even though it dissolves, it would take years to get across the width of the sealing surface.
I have 3 zetecs and haven't changed a housing yet. 39 total years of use there..........
The only thing that Doorman did with the housing was use a little thicker walled inner tube for their seal, its going to leak again.
After you change it two or three more time you can get it done in well under an hour.
I did think about using cork gasket material instead of the paper. I know one thing I'm not going to use the inner tube seal again! I'll Epoxy it solid to the head before I do that, you don't have to take the housing off to change the thermostat so it could be permanently bonded to the head for all I care.
Its to soft,
Its just flips over,
I'm on my third housing now and I have no doubt its going to leak again. And just to note, none of my housings cracked.
I know a lot of people that have luck with silicone sealants, but I'm not one of them, I did One Time get the RTV black to work a bit.
Also, I found out that the "Great" Permatex #2 formula has been changed from the early version! it used to state "Impervious to Gasoline and Solvents" it doesn't state that anymore and I found out that's its not! I'm not sure if its worth buying anymore or not?
When I got the car it took about a year for the housing to start leaking, when I took it apart it had a crap homemade gasket from what looked like a cereal box. The groove wasn't filled in with anything, but it held up WAY better than the inner tube seal does.
How about the Permatex "High Tack" gasket sealant, its yellow and it states that using this product eliminates the need for weather stripping adhesive, anybody tried it?
The weatherstrip adhesive you have now is not the product you knew and loved in '77. I used to use it quite a bit too, it has been severely changed for VOC content and absolutely does not work as well as it used to. It comes loose now even from rubber, which it is designed to grab the hardest. It lumps up even more than it used to to make uneven thickness. It DOES crack now with temperature.............and it is one of the most inflexible gasket sealers out there, but always was, even back then. Don't know where you got that idea. I don't use it at all for gaskets anymore, way too many other much better products. As flat as you have it now one of the better silicone gasket makers may work well with no paper gasket at all. I'd be trying it with no paper gasket.
No way will a paper gasket seal without crush, the crush is what squeezes the pores of the paper flat to not leak, simply gluing it up seals the sides but not edges, which will eventually seep coolant. The crush also seals gasket from coolant getting in it to soften it to come apart, after all the special chemicals in there it is still paper..........
Using original rubber gasket the cover was never intended to be dead flat, the steel inserts hit first, why they stick up slightly.
The original tightening is closer to inch pounds, if you repeat that the paper gasket will leak.
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|all this for a cracked housing,,,mine took a hour to change
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|they have complete housings at APS,,l jus had mine changed,,caused by leaking valve cover which l changed a few months ago
My thinking is that using a good bonding agent to both sides of the gasket and letting it fully cure should reduce the need for higher torque.
Next, what I found was during the lapping of the housing is they are not "Flat" I had to actually sand beyond the Epoxy fill to get the housing to make a complete and full contact across its entire surface. I figure this is adding to some of the housings getting cracked.
Another thing I found was while lapping the housing was the full length steel inserts were not even with a housing surface, lapping corrected that on at lest the sealing surface side of the housing.
The gasket paper I used was a thin hard pressed type, so my hope is that no more torque will be needed to seal the gasket than the rubber seal. The plan is to create a good cured bond with the yellow weather stripping adhesive and tighten the bolts to normal torque. I do think that running the bolts down "EVEN" with the gasket may be even more important than with the soft rubber seal.
Some people doubt the use of the weather stripping adhesive for a gasket sealer.
The short story of how I started using it.
Around 1977 I had a Chevy Blazer (New) and it had coolant leaks and oil leaks from a number of places. I took it to the dealership several times to get them to fix it, to no avail!. I was a mechanic at the time working for Firestone, so I decided to just fix it myself.
I went to one of the parts stores where we most often ordered parts from and I new all the people that worked ther, and one of them had been around the parts business for YEARS. So I go in getting the stuff I need to fix my leaks and I also ask him for the "Absolute" best gasket sealing on the planet and at any cost?? well he brings out a tube of (at the time) "3M yellow Weather Stripping Adhesive" I ask, this is the best? to which he replied Yep! I have used it ever sense.
It bonds,
It seals,
It don't crack,
It flexes.
It has become my best friend, LoL
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the generation of people born from the eighties onwards, who because of changes in the economic situation are more likely to rent their homes than buy them
'Although 77 per cent of all non-homeowners still aspire to buy, many members of generation rent might never get a realistic chance to do so, and nearly half of 20-45-year-olds say Britain is following Europe to regard renting as the norm.'Ripley & Heanor News 26th June 2011
There's an old saying which goes 'an Englishman's home is his castle', expressing the idea that we Brits love our homes as the ultimate refuge in which we can do as we please. In the current economic climate, however, it seems that these castles are far more likely to be rented rather than bought, as a generation of young adults are finding it increasingly difficult to get a foot on the property ladder. This new demographic has recently been dubbed the generation rent.
the only young adults who appear less likely to join generation rent are those fortunate enough to have affluent parents with cash to spare to help them raise a deposit
Owning your own home (or rather part-owning it with the bank!) has always been the norm in the UK, with those whose financial circumstances permit usually choosing to buy rather than rent. This is a phenomenon unique to Britain and contrasts with the rest of Europe and the USA, where renting is the usual option. Changes in the economic situation during the past few years however have made it increasingly difficult for first-time buyers to get started in the property market, so that there is an emerging generation, the so-called generation rent, who may never own their own homes.
At the peak of the borrowing binge prior to the 2007 credit crunch, some lenders offered first-time mortgages worth as much as 125% of a property's value, and six times the salary of the borrower. Today, by contrast, the banks are much more conservative about how much money they'll lend and demand much bigger deposits from first-time buyers, typically 20% to 25% of the value of the purchase. This means that the average deposit a first time-buyer needs to save is around £28,000, a predictably off-putting amount of money. This has caused many young people, including professionals on good salaries who would traditionally enter the housing market, to stay renting long-term in a property that they like.
The only young adults who appear less likely to join generation rent are those fortunate enough to have affluent parents with cash to spare to help them raise a deposit. This gives them a huge, and possibly lifelong advantage over those who do not have access to what has sometimes been called the Bank of Mum and Dad, a tongue-in-cheek expression used to refer to the situation of parents lending significant amounts of money to their offspring in order to give them a helping hand in today's tough economic climate.
The expression generation rent first appeared in May 2011, in the context of a report giving details of a survey commissioned by the Halifax Building Society. The survey, undertaken by the UK's National Centre for Social Research, included responses from 8000 20-45-year-olds, over three quarters of whom still aspired to owning their own home. Nearly two-thirds however, felt that they had no prospect whatsoever of buying a home, with only 5% saving up for a deposit, and nearly 50% saying that they felt Britain was now following Europe in the trend of considering renting to be the norm.
In noteworthy contrast however, a recent survey in Australia revealed that the Antipodean counterparts of generation rent are in fact more likely to buy than rent. It seems that young Australians are increasingly choosing to stay in the parental home so that they can avoid paying rent, save up for a deposit and buy their own place as soon as possible. These young home-buyers have been dubbed Generation Y-Rent – a clever play on the expression Generation Y which is used to refer to the generation of people born between the late seventies and the mid-nineties.
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Green Bay finished the 54-hole tournament at the 5,975-yard, par-73 Las Colinas Course in seventh place with a team score of 989 (328-332-329). Led by individual medalist Lindsey Lammers, Detroit won the team title with a three-day total of 943 (317-315-311).
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Gret Britain's School Fund Trust came out swinging with demands schools should enforce "lock-in" during lunchtime so that children will eat healthy canteen food instead of going off to places where they consume junk food. A survey conducted by the Trust found there are, on an average, about 23 fast-food outlets within a mile of the typical seconday school building. It is concerned students are not taking advantage of new nutritional standards found in school cafeterias because they go elsewhere in search of foods that lead to obesity and poor health. The solution is to adopt a "stay on site" policy which restricts students to school grounds. John Dunford, general secetary of the Association of School and College Leaders, pointed out: "For instance, large schools with multiple entrances would struggle to provide levels of supervision. Other schools were built with canteens that are physically too small to cater to every pupil."
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It's been a while since I've seen a rating that low: http://www.safercar.gov/Vehicle+Shop...vehicleId=6763
Don't know how it managed 4 stars overall....
It's been a while since I've seen a rating that low: http://www.safercar.gov/Vehicle+Shop...vehicleId=6763
Don't know how it managed 4 stars overall....
1) The structure seems to have held up quite well actually.
2) Didn't these ratings get tweaked recently to keep up with the safety advances (i.e. A 2 Star today does not equal a 2 Star from yesteryear.)?
3) Given how well the passenger scored... I bet (because I cannot find the info at the link) the driver dummy slipped and bumped something.
IMHO... these tests are not the most perfect, because the sample size is not ideal (i.e. What if the dummy was placed in the car more crooked? What if the belt was not cinched as well as it could be? What if the fabric material vs the dummy's skin is more conducive to sliding on one brand vs another? Etc.).
From that video... I think I would be plenty happy with the results as the driver. When I read the thread title I was expecting the dummy's head to smack the windshield or something spectacular.
The key to being safe in this car is to turn the wheel sharply either to the left or right when you're about to have a head-on collision, because the side impact tests achieved five stars.
In the video the car's passenger cell. seems to hold up fairly well. Not really sure why it got such a low rating. The drivers head did seem to get jarred forward and back very hard though, almost as though he wasn't properly fastened in.
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They used to give the actual injury criterion and head deceleration numbers. Looks like in making the website easier to read, they reduced the amount of info.
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HON 302 World Cultures: Social Sciences
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Prerequisite: Junior standing and enrollment in the honors program or NMU GPA greater than or equal to 3.0.
Critical reading and comparative analysis will be used to explore a non-western European culture from a social science perspective. The discipline (anthropology, economics, geography, health, history, political science, and/or sociology) through which a specific culture and its people are explored will vary with faculty expertise.


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If you're preparing to roll out IPv6 on your network, this concise book provides the essentials you need to support this protocol with DNS. You'll learn how DNS was extended to accommodate IPv6 addresses, and how you can configure a BIND name server to run on the network. This book also features methods for troubleshooting problems with IPv6 forward- and reverse-mapping, and techniques for helping islands of IPv6 clients communicate with IPv4 resources.
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Cricket Liu graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, that great bastion of free speech, unencumbered Unix, and cheap pizza. He joined Hewlett-Packard after graduation and worked for HP for nine years.Cricket began managing the hp.com zone after the Loma Prieta earthquake forcibly transferred the zone's management from HP Labs to HP's Corporate Offices (by cracking a sprinkler main and flooding a Labs computer room). Cricket was firstname.lastname@example.com for over three years, and then joined HP's Professional Services Organization to co-found HP's Internet Consulting Program.Cricket left HP in 1997 to form Acme Byte & Wire, a DNS consulting and training company, with his friend Matt Larson. Network Solutions acquired Acme in June 2000, and later the same day merged with VeriSign. Cricket worked for a year as Director of DNS Product Management for VeriSign Global Registry Services.Cricket joined Infoblox, a company that develops DNS and DHCP appliances, in March, 2003. He is currently their Vice President of Architecture.Cricket, his wife, Paige, their son, Walt, and daughter, Greta, live in California with their two Siberian Huskies, Annie and Dakota.
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This is a 36 page pamphlet for $30. DNS and Bind was a 600 page book for $45. I feel cheated.
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A use appendix for DNS & BIND
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"DNS & BIND on IPv6" is an appendix to Cricket Liu's work DNS & BIND which exhaustively describes all of the IPv6-related issues when using IPv6 with BIND (as well as briefly touching on other issues like DHCP). This book is not standalone, but an additional chapter for "DNS & BIND".This book is very limited in scope: It doesn't teach one how to use BIND (that's what "DNS & BIND" is for). It doesn't look at any DNS server besides BIND--for example, it doesn't discuss MaraDNS' reject_aaaa parameter, which is equivalent to BIND's filter-aaaa and filter-aaaa-on-v4. It doesn't do anything but tell you what you need to do to make a BIND DNS server work with IPv6.Everything to do with IPv6 is here: Configuring an authoritative DNS server to have IPv6 records, IPv6 recursion, work-arounds for the issues IPv6 can cause, DNS64, and it even discusses how to configure DHCP with IPv6 (even though this isn't something directly involving BIND).All of this is in a tiny little book that is about 40 pages long and can be easily read by an experienced DNS administrator cover to cover in under an hour.The only issues I can see with this book is that the title is a little deceiving; it really ought to have the word "appendix" or "add-on" to its title. Also, when reading the .mobi version of the ebook on my Kindle for PC client, I had issues reading the charts in the "Built-In Empty Reverse Mapping Zones" section; I had to convert my screen layout from two columns to one column to read this section.If you use BIND as your DNS server, and want to learn how to upgrade it to use IPv6, this is the mini-ebook to have. Even for people who do not use BIND, sections like the one on DNS64 are insightful for understanding some of technologies proposed to help with the inevitable IPv6 transition process.DISCLOSURE: A digital copy of this book was given to me because I am a member of the O'Reilly Blogger Review Program.
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Useful, very brief
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DNS & BIND on IPv6 is a short (37 pages e-book, 52 pages print) text that could be considered an IPv6 appendix to the author's book on DNS. It provides a brief introduction to IPv6 addressing, then moves directly into some of the new record types and configurations necessary to allow BIND to support IPv6.I would consider this a useful booklet for active BIND administrators. The information is available elsewhere, particularly in the RFC's dealing with DNS and IPv6, but this is a much more convenient and succinct format. Background knowledge of DNS and the operation of BIND is assumed by the author, and the material would be far less useful without that foundation.Those with an interest in network security or design may also find this material of interest, although it does not directly address those areas.Overall a good resource from an authoritative source, you will have to decide whether the purchase price is justified for such a brief volume.
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PINEHURST, N.C. - University of North Carolina golfer Patrick Barrett was the runner-up at the CCNC Amateur played at the Country Club of North Carolina. Barrett finished with a 2-over-par 218 total, three strokes behind Justin Clement who finished at 1-under 215.
Barrett, a senior from Pinehurst, fired a 2-under-par 70 in the final round. His round included four birdies and two bogeys. He fired an even par 72 in the second round after shooting a 2-over 74 in the opening round. Barrett played in all five of Carolina's fall tournaments. His top finish came at the Tar Heel Intercollegiate where he was the runner-up competing as an individual. He fired two additional top-25 finishes, tying for fourth place at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate and tying for 21st at the Royal Oaks Intercollegiate. The 54-hole event was played Dec. 18-20 at CCNC's par 72, 7,068-yard layout.Three other Tar Heels also participated and carded top-25 finishes. Andy Knox, a junior from Cary, N.C., tied for 10th place at 9-over 225 with rounds of 75-73-77. He played in three events this fall with his top performance coming at the Tar Heel Intercollegiate where he tied for 17th place while competing as an individual. Reeves Zaytoun, a sophomore from Raleigh, N.C., tied for 16th at 11-over 227. He fired a 1-over 73 in the final round after shooting 78-76 in the first two rounds. Robert Register, a sophomore from Burlington, N.C., tied for 25th at 14-over 230 with rounds of 74-81-75.


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The Canisius College softball team earned a split in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) doubleheader action on Saturday afternoon against Marist at the Demske Sports Complex. After dropping the opening contest by the score of 10-2, the Golden Griffins bounced back in the second game with a 6-4 win over the visiting Red Foxes. The Griffs are now 17-14 on the season and 2-2 in MAAC action, while the Red Foxes move to 14-16 and 3-1 in the conference
In the doubleheader, senior Katie Medina and freshman Tori Nappo each went a combined 3-for-5. Nappo recorded a pair of doubles, including one run and an RBI. Junior Valorie Nappo and Marissa Miller each collected the Griffs' home runs, including Miller's three-run shot in game two.
Despite striking out a total of 12 batters, senior Amanda Baun (4-4) recorded the loss in 6.1 innings of work for the Griffs in game one. Junior Jen Consaul collected her 12th win of the season in game two, improving to 12-7 on the year. Consaul retired six batters in 7.0 innings, allowing four runs off six hits.
The Golden Griffins opened game one of the afternoon with Baun striking out the first six batters she faced.
In the third inning, the Red Foxes generated offense off a couple bunts. With runners on first and second, second baseman Nicole Cheek put the Red Foxes on the board with a two-RBI single through the left side.
The Griffs split the Red Foxes' lead to 2-1 with freshman Meghan Cuda scoring from third on a play at first.
The Red Foxes extended their lead to 6-1 in the top of the fifth, including a three-RBI triple down ther leftfield line by Cheek.
Junior Valorie Nappo crushed her first home run of the season to center in the bottom of the fifth, cutting into the Red Foxes' 6-2 lead.
The Red Foxes secured the victory in the top of the seventh with four runs off back-to-back home runs. With a pair of runners on base, catcher Alyssa Zahka gave the Red Foxes a 9-2 lead off a three-run home run followed by a solo shot by shortstop Kursten Van Natta.
Given the score, only one hit separated Marist and Canisius. The Red Foxes had nine hits to the Griffs' eight.
After the Red Foxes opened game two with a 1-0 lead in the first inning, the Golden Griffins exploded for six runs in the bottom of the third.
Sophomore Robin Kennery gave the Griffs their first lead of the afternoon with a two-run double down the right field line. Tori Nappo pushed the Griffs' lead to 3-1 with a an RBI-double down the opposite line. Following a Marist pitching change, Miller drilled a shot to deep left field to give the Griffs a 6-1 lead with a three-run blast.
The Red Foxes came fighting back in the top of the fifth with three runs to pull within a pair of the Griffs, 6-4. Designated player Janine Lalli started the Red Foxes' rally effort with an RBI-double to right-center. With a runner on third, left fielder Collen McWilliams belted a two-run shot over the right field wall to cut into the Griffs' lead, 6-4.
The Blue and Gold will next face Robert Morris on Tuesday afternoon in a doubleheader. The pitch for game one is set for 3 p.m.
GAME NOTES: Holding the longest hitting streak for a Griff this season, Cuda's ten-game hitting streak came to an end in game two... The Griffs move to 26-12 in the all-time series against Marist... The Griffs and Red Foxes have split their last six doubleheaders.


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Old coolant, bad aluminum, etc. Some blame can be placed on the user, and some can be placed on GM."Every American who ever had a dream dreamed of driving a Cadillac."
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1996 Seville SLS at 132,000 miles. Two previous cooling problems precipitated the final failure; Impeller and radiator went out.. The OAT orange coolant starts eating the gaskets from within, once air ever gets in the system.
Same thing happened to my 2000 Chevy Venture. Did a top end to that engine, and started using green coolant and all cooling problems fixed.
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So will timeserted block survive long duration?
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As for my 1996 SLS, I have not yet decided if I'm going to time-sert the block, get a used engine, look at the LS4 5.3 transverse engine swap, or just take this beautiful car to the junk heap and call it quits. No one seems to want to buy a good looking car with any problems. Still runs like a sewing machine, but you can smell coolant from the exhaust and overheating is a crap shoot. 5 miles or a 100 miles, ... it is unpredictable except that it will overheat.
I should probably start a new post for help on this issue.
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Is an LS4 swap viable? A friend of mine wants to know, his N* is starting to use coolant (steamy exhaust, makes a nice cloud at times). I am pretty sure it hasn't come close to overheating, he bought a new Jeep so the Cad is now parked.
He has a 99-00 SLS. He wants to get it back up and running, I mentioned a LS4 swap is possible, but we need to know details.
Any help/advice either way is very welcome.
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I'm curious because the headbolts on my mucho expensive BMW V12 failed at 62k due to use of that system. I'm wondering if Cadillac didn't engineer itself into the same corner. BMW eventually fixed the issue (took it 5 years of production, through). As far as I can tell, every mfg who has used this system, be it GM, BMW, Honda, or whomever, ends up with blown gaskets due to failed headbolts.
I think mfg's are engineering themselves into corners because marketing departments want to wow customers with technology and performance, but this comes at a price in longevity. A 12v cast iron V6 can be made to last forever even with minimal maintenance, but nobody wants one in their car anymore. So we get highly stressed, high tech engines that are zippy and give good mpg off the showroom floor, but are prone to failure. GM is not the only mfg in this corner.
To make it worse, the heavy use of leases means most of those "buying" the cars don't give a hoot about how long it will last after 4 years--they're just going to hand it to the dealer and get a new one anyway. So why build the car to last 150k? To please a bunch of folks who never buy new anyway?
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So basically the failure mode is coolant leaks into the threads of the head bolts, corrodes the block, and the head bolts give way and you are done. So somehow you need to absolutely prevent coolant from ever getting to the threads.
What did BMW do it to fix?
GM should revisit the main bolt concept on the 427 Hemi Pontiac. They had spayed main bolts and the lower head bolts were long and went into the main caps. The upper head bolts went into the block deep, well past where the bores were so no bore distortion could happen when the heads were tightened down. This is a long Pontiac design already on the top bolts, but the bottom never got into production.
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Ask a mechanical engineer about the stress-strain curve, the yield point, and the modulus of rupture.
Sounds like the Northstar is more similar to the old Jaguar 6. As Jag expanded the displacement over the years they extended the head studs deeper into the block to the point the studs ran through the water jacket. If you didn't keep the coolant super clean the studs would corrode. The engines were so dammed overbuilt that you probably still wouldn't lose a gasket, but it was hard to remove the stud without leaving 1/2 the stud behind if you ever had to pull the head.
Does the Northstar expose the head bolt directly to coolant or does failure first require something else, like a cracked waterjacket or a partial loss of seal at the headgasket?
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Sorry, I didn't phrase it well, I am guessing that is the problem, not sure if it is. A lot of people seem to blame the antifreeze so that is my guess.
I sure would like to know the actual engineering analysis for the failures. And is it repairable to make the engine truly reliable.
I am worried on my mom and dad's 97, they are @ 105K on GM installed antifreeze...... I found a trace of coolant on one sparkplug, so I am concerned they are on borrowed time.... The car doesn't drive much anymore, but still gets driven several times a week....
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Actually, the "explanation" of antifreeze corroding the bolts makes perfect sense. The overall problem still sounds much like what I've seen with the Jag 6, through the problme is not limited to that engine and is a fundamental issue with any aluminum motor.
The basic issue is that because of the greater expansion of aluminum, an all-aluminum design puts much more stress on the head gasket--it gets squeezed tighter when the engine is warm and has to expand more to fill in the gaps when the engine is cold. After 1000's of cycles, the gasket will lose some of it elasticity and no longer seal completely. Small leaks from the water jacket result, and if the antifreeze is old, the headbolts (which are iron or other metal susceptible to corrosion) will corrode and eventually fail.
With the Jag, the solution was to change the headgasket at 100,000. You didn't wait for a failure; this was considered normal maintenance. The good part was that the engine was so overbuilt that you only changed the gasket--the timing chain, valve seals, etc., were good to 150k easily.
BMW (and others) have tried to avoid this problem by designing the head bolts so they stretch and take some of the load off the gasket, which can be made out of very hard and tough material. I still have one out of my V12, and it likely is vulnerable only to A-bombs and cockroaches
Us red blooded 'mericans are used to driving cast iron blocks and head forever without head gasket issues. Those times are gone.
I wonder if GM when the extra mile with the STS-V and used a better gasket material?
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But is better gasket material gonna fix anything? Or prolong the inevitable?
Makes me wanna avoid any alum block cars out of fear of headaches.
Are the LS1's, LS2's, LQ9's, LS7's and the like having any issues? They make a lot more power in many cases, did they fix it with them?
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As for all-aluminum designs, I'll just say there's a reason that my other car is a Buick with the good 'ole cast iron 12v V6. Simple and near indestructable.
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And don't hesitate to post even if you got rid of the car. I wish I could post for my 94 but I sold it without diagnosis so it may have just been a coolant leak. In my opinion dex cool is the culprit behind the issue. If you kept the coolant clean in pre dex cool as my 94 was it ran forever. I got rid of mine at 187k and running like new minus the coolant leak. I also plan to drain and refresh my coolant every spring to make sure my coolant is always fresh and not harmful. That and it only takes a bottle to fill it and costs 8 bucks from wal mart.
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