after testing out the suspension @ 65 on the perimeter jump I pulled up to a buddy's house to find the rad had rejected its coolant tossing it from cap to fan painting the entire bay in yellow stick.
once cold I fed it water and hosed her down. got home and every thing was fine. woman does some shopping and the water I fed it the other day was tossed all over the bay.......and the pattern repeats. fine for a day or two then rejects the coolant. hours spent trying to simulate the great puke in the yard to no avail. part of me wants to pull it then drop in a 2L 5spd some 68 struts bla bla work.... fudge it, I will just put the oil burner back in. it's only like 20 bolts and 5 hose clamps. then I think I 'll just pull the head have a look, install a new gasket and probably drop the chain...rad out, timing cover r&R then some pump in pump out action.
scrap it all. pulled the vale cover, torque wrench set to 50 click click around the head and not one bolt budged. 55 click 60 click 65 click 67 click 68click ....I was too scared to find how far the last guy took it when the head gasket started leaking on him.
maybe i'll try some bars leaks to get me to the show with a clean engine bay.
gathered together a couple closed chamber 210s. one had new seats and valves with a fresh grind. pulled a couple donor heads from the pile, picked a open 210 suffering from sunken valve syndrome with a 445. , .050 worth of shims under the towers, new head is .030 thicker, have .020 shims. will I need to take .030 off the lash pads ? .....assuming the geometry was correct to start with.
now to find a carb with a good throttle shaft worth rebuilding.
