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Well my car was just down for 2 month cuz of the dreaded BHG after only 1400 miles on a fresh engine. Jarco sent me a new Cometic HG and stock headbolts. I got the head resurfaced but since the engine only had 1400 miles on it I really didnt feel it needed to be resurfaced and just cleaned up the surface. I finished it all up and decided to take it for a test trial and went on a 1400 mile road trip after retorqing the headbolts after 300 miles on the stock toyota bolts. Everything ran great for the entire trip, no overheating or loss of coolant. Then I get back and my bird cage light starts comming on all the time. I figured it was the shitty stock bolts stretching and replaced them with some new ARP's that arrived in the mail right as I got back. I put those on and torqed em down to 85 ft/lbs with ARP's moly lube. Unfortunatly though im still loosing coolant and im stumped as what I should do now. I read a thread on here a couple days ago that talked about the rivits in the Cometic gasket that can cause sealing problems and im wondering if it could be something as simple as that. I really love this car to death and I want to get it fixed but I really dont want to have to pull the engine again. Anyone with any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
ladmo
Thanks,
ladmo