65Ford
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- Connecticut
- Vehicle Year
- 1994
- Make / Model
- Mazda
- Engine Size
- 4.0L
- Transmission
- Manual
Hey all, hope someone can help. 94 B4000/Ranger 4.0. Blew a head gasket. Tore it down and replaced gaskets but reused old heads, didn't have any work done to them, stupid yes. Needed to get truck hopefully running to use for work. Any who, put back together and it still was streaming out tail pipe. Tore it back down, new gaskets, heads and bolts. Just started it and still steaming like before. I have factory repair manual and followed per instructions. Thing that was difficult was the final torque on head bolts in engine bay, the final 80 to 90 degree turn of the bolts. I had to use an extension on some of them and pretty sure I got the full required turn but it's the only thing that maybe I didn't do to complete spec. Any ideas what I cold be missing? Could block be cracked? TIA for help. Bill