kahren

NA FC about 120k miles started to overheat and burned some coolant, no real smoke show out

the tailpipe but the coolant woudl bubble like crazy when u open the radiator cap.

somwhat of a weird scenario, i never seen this before, after taking it appart i find this...





http://12.243.159.121/photos/!My%20Pic...ed/DSC00005.JPG

RotaryRocket219

are you looking at the white in the passages or the funky area about mid way down in the water o-ring seal track? Theres a pic of one of my endplates..I think the white is fine to re-use...I dont see anything wrong with it...but....

Judge Ito

As you start to tear engines apart you will find more and more engines looking like this. Engines with high mileage. When the coolant support on the plates break, there is no support behind the coolant seal and the engine compression, exhaust starts to creep into the coolant system and is time to tear it down.

kahren

ito have u ever used jb weld to save teh housing from this? if the guy i son a real budget?

Judge Ito

I usually have so many 6 port engine plates laying around I don't fix them, but I have fixed many turbo II and FD plates for racing engines before. Need a remedy ?????

setzep

Lets hear the remedy! I have a bad 6 port front plate sitting here.

Roy James

Yeah, no ****, lets hear this remedy!

setzep

I tried his exh sleeve removal technique and it worked awsome! Had those sleeves out in 5 min

Heath

What is the exhaust sleeve removal technique? I'm really interested in this

setzep

Take a MIG welder and tack weld the spring pins. continue tack welding untill you get a nice ball weld on top of the pin. Use a pair of diagonal cutters and grab onto the ball shaped tack weld and pull it out. Works great! On't worry about damaging the aluminum housing, the welder won't bother it. It will only weld to the spring pin. Repeat on the other pin and the sleeve will fall out.