Slightly leaking head gasket on Farmall 130

[upgw]

I mentioned this before, after a good hour run, there is some coolant bubbling out of the head gasket on the right hand side. I spoke with the my buddy who did the rebuild, it has been doing this on/off for 10 years, and even stopped for a long while. I'm probably using it harder than he did. When he did the engine, the block and/or head may have been (probably were) planed and the wet sleeves weren't cut as well, so maybe they are up to high in the block. There also appears to be a lip around each chamber in the head (to hold sleeve down), which wasn't re-cut when the head was done. Seems like the simplest fix would be a slightly thicker head gasket, if one exists. Any ideas? The gasket doens't look very compressed...

Thanks,
- Patrick

 

[Soundguy]

Have you retorqued it after the rebuild?

Over on the ytmag ford N- board.. when we run into a head or deck problem, some of the guys will go to a fiber gasket as opposed to the metal impregnated one.. and it is not unheard of to try two headgaskets.. etc

Soundguy

 

[upgw]

I'll check with the guy who did the engine. The manual calls for a re-torque after a full warm up, don't know if that was done, but it probaby was. I was going to re-do it this fall anyway. Yeah, two gaskets, ugh, it's an idea, I know people do it. I'll have to look into a fiber gasket and figure out what is on it now.

Thanks,
- P