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Oh and I did have to burp the coolant and I did it cold with ear plugs, goggles and without anything dangling.:) Thanks!

Thanks No Mast, that's good advice. I ran the motor today but because I'm currently in a busy anchorage I wasn't able to put a load on the motor to get her warmed up completely. But the white smoke is way less. Still a little but nothing like it was before I did the valves. I have to go to the...

Great input! Forkliftt, good call, I'll look for obvious air bubbles in the coolant reservoir today. No Mast, I'll also do the exhaust test. Let me make sure I understand each of the potential problems you outlines. ::Lack of compression - This would be because the fuel does not burn...

Having blown two head gaskets on my Toyota trucks as a teenager I’m extra paranoid about overheating and blowing head gaskets. So when the four cylinder Ford Lehman in our sailboat overheated a while back I became worried that the head gasket might have been compromised. It happened when the end...