Topic: head gasket

[JoeWelder]

thanks guys, ill be buying new bolts but i cant afford the arp ones....
ill be buying the gasket kit and bolts from LCE

also when i start my truck or take off, theres always a puff of blue smoke. i figured one of my rings were bad but i got 170-175 psi on all 4 pistons....could my head gasket leaking be causeing the blue smoke? and maybe some power loss?

[JoeWelder [OP]]

heres where it is leaking....not horrible but its bad enough. im not getting any water in my oil or anything.

[zippo]

If it is just when you start it up its most likely your valve stem seals. when you turn your motor off and it site, oil drains down the valve and sits on the back side when you start up it take a min for all that oil to burn off.

[JoeWelder [OP]]

gotcha....it alsodoes it when i take off from a red light or something.

[JoeWelder [OP]]

so a new valve seal set from LCE should fix that problem?  right?...

[zippo]

if it smokes once you are going

while accelerating is can be your rings when you let off the gas it's you rings.

I would change the seals and see if it fixes it.