Recent content by childrd

Finally got around to figuring out the digital camera and taking pictures of the failed gaskets on my Buick 3.8. I should have taken them sooner because the gaskets are not as deformed as they were when I did the job. I don't have a web page so if someone wants to see them or post them let me...

I've looked and looked but I can't figure what "CCS" on the oil spec sheets is. Could someone explain what it is?

No, it was not nearly that bad. The leaks I had were external. The engine had been sipping coolant for at least two years but I think it was at the throttle body because that had the thickest scale. I pulled the intake within a week of the first drop on the garage floor. The coolant passages...

I just finished installing new gaskets on the lower intake manifold and a Dorman plenum on our 2000 Buick LeSabre (with 55,000 mi). I think that the coolant softened the gaskets. The coolant passage gaskets were deformed on everything: at the EGR tube, on the throttle body, and on the lower...