KyleT said:
so, have you driven it? Is it overheating with the reservoir cap on?
Is your heater core clogged?
If you run it with the cap off and it gets warm it will bubble. It is a closed pressurized system.
FOR example, I ran a dye test on my P38 after a head job when I was trying to figure out why it was building pressure, it came back saying i had diesel residue or something in the coolant, turned purple, then blew the tester about 15ft in the air and lost all the coolant....
It turned out to be a nearly 100% clogged radiator. I put a new one in and there have been no issues.
this may be a moot point, but lots of advice to Todd, including yours, was given to him by myself and John. Forget about our testing before it left the shop to St. Louis. Todd reports his own testing - passing wet and dry, hot and cold compression, dye, pressure, block trueness via machinist level.... no overheating - but of course - because he's paranoid, the motor is toast, right?
He simply doesnt listen, doesnt want to, and is clearly trying to resolve some kind of uneducated, panic induced agenda.
Now, for the sake of his poor door and battered ego, lets let the poor guy's thread die. this will be the last you hear from me on this. todd can say whatever he wants, he knows the truth - and now that truth is supprted from all your posts, echoing everything i've been telling him over the last several months.