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Originally Posted by Veeder
I had a similar issue a number of years ago and found a couple of head bolts not torqued down - just worth a quick check
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I just torqued the head nuts down again. some of them were quite a bit under 55lbs.
I'd be really surprised if I had a cracked cylinder as F-ONE mentioned as I just had the heads off a few months ago and did not observe any cracks. I also do not smell gas or exhaust in the coolant. Thanks for the suggestion though.
On a side note, I mentioned earlier that The car was backfiring/popping out of the exhaust and flatford8 mentioned a cylinder firing at the wrong time. Since I have the radiator off at the shop, its easy to get to the distributor so I rechecked all of my plug wires to make sure none were crossed. I did have two of my plug wires crossed. After straightening that our I fired it up for a few seconds and she purred like a kitten. Thanks for the help on that Mark.