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Old 07-14-2006, 02:11 PM
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i am unfortunately in most agreement with undy's suggestion. This thing has got legs we cannot quite fathom at this distance.

There is a distinct risk that you might have at least once experienced a hydraulic lock on this motor when it might not have started for you at any time in the past. If that really happened and you have contaminated rings and bearings and a 'stressed' piston top, things aren't gonna' get good with just a replacement head. It might solve the proximate problem and run, but the life cycle could be zippo at high power and the failure might well be rather more expensive than a little pissy leaker.

Let a pro get up to his armpits in this mutha and have a eureka moment of his own. KC is fine folks and you might have to negotiate a solution that is cool with you both, but i would feel downright rotten to let you keep digging in this sand hole without suggesting caution at this point.

i wish it wasn't so.
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