Thread: Coolant in cylinders; fresh 400 sbc build

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Originally Posted by glennsexton

Can you take a couple close ups of the head and post them? Is either a bad picture or something nasty happened in the machine shop.

I was thinking that they shaved to much off the heads. The pics I posted are not bad, what yo see is what it is. See the notch in the coolant port in the 1st pic? That is where the biggest leak is but ports on other cylinders over lap the compression ring on the gasket and leak into the cylinder.