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If you had the heads milled, and the block is flat, and you cleaned the block...did you by chance mix up the bolt tightening sequence? Or do like I did, and say "oh I can drive the mile home without putting the alt/power steering on...", forgetting that the same belt drives the water pump? (I damn near had to do it again, I was lucky as h*ll).

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If it is no miles, then the milk shake could be (residual) from the earlier failure - not sure though. Did you drain the head/block also prior to replacing the gaskets. I just did my head gaskets and used the Beck & Arnley ones. These looked just as the original ones I took out. So I am following the retorque regimen for the original gaskets (if you follow the procedure, it is quite arduous and inconvenient; basically between the initial oil/filter change and torque, you complete the process again at 0 miles (after idling to warm up and cool), 300 miles and 1300 miles after the head gasket replacement). Which gaskets did you use - Felpro permatorques? Did you use OEM intake manifold gaskets, or at least torque those to 15 ft-lbs. If your engine did not heat up after replacing the gaskets, try and retorque the bolts again after draining the engine oil (and block/heads also if necessary).

 

Not too much information to go on here as yet. Hopefully you can sort this out. Good luck.

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