Symptoms Of A Crack In The Block Vs. Gasket Leak?

Thanks Petel best source of information

 

Really not, but thanks. I'm here to learn.

Did you mean using the dwell meter for the tachometer function? Checking rpm, not actually dwell itself?

 

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I've heard a tailpipe sniffer works too, to detect exhaust in the cooling system. Possibly a FLAPS loaner?

 

Yes thats one of the best old ways I learned from my father to set a carb up still have that old dwell meter of his.

 

Note if your oil volume increases, smell the dipstick. Gasoline can get into the crankcase both through the intake and from the backside of the fuel pump. If you smell gas, change the oil and hunt down the source of the leak.

 

An old trick to check for water/coolant in the oil is to remove dipstick, leave oil on it, and heat it up with a flame lighter. If you see bubbles form then they snap and pop when getting hot then you have water or coolant in the oil. If it just tries to coke up then no water.

 

Will detect exhaust (hydrocarbons) in the coolant but not oil. There is a kit that uses a special fluid that changes color in the presence of hydrocarbons that does the same thing.