Ok, I know this is long, and I apologize, but all of this stuff has happened over the past 3 years now so alot has gone on and I want to be as descriptive as posssible. I have a '96 Mystic and back in '06 I developed a leaking head gasket, when you gave it gas you could see small bubbles come up in the radiator and it would run pretty warm but never overheated. So I took it as an opportunity to hopefully rebuild the motor with some forged internals since the car already had around 125k miles anyway if figured it was close to that time. Well Im in the miltary and was slotted to go into Basic Training in September '06 and unfortunately fell short of time and money by the time I had to leave, so the car has been sitting in a warehouse my dad has back home for the past 3 years. The only thing that I was able to get done was pulling everything and some headwork. Well little did I know but this past time when I was in Iraq my dad and a buddy of his (who is a long time Ford Tech but first time with a Cobra motor) took it upon themselves to fix my car for me while I was gone with the intention of giving it back to me when I got back. Well they got it all back together after taking the block in to have it checked out, which they were told was good, and when they went to turn it over just to prime it, from what I am told I wasnt there when it happened, after a few seconds of turning it built up pressure and blew it out the radiator. My dads friend thinks that maybe its the block and that the machine shop checked for level one way across the block but not the other and the block is bad but really hasnt looked into it yet.
Im hoping thats not it and asking for some helpful tips onto what else it could possibly be and if there is anything they could do to check and narrow down the possible causes before they tear back into it because its really got me worried now. From my first Mustang since I was 16 to my last Ive always bought them and fixed them on my own with my own money. The fact that they went through all this trouble shocked the hell outa me and really means alot to me and I just hope it wasnt for nothing because the fact that it may be has really got me tore up. So any advise would be helpful guys. Thanks :??:
Im hoping thats not it and asking for some helpful tips onto what else it could possibly be and if there is anything they could do to check and narrow down the possible causes before they tear back into it because its really got me worried now. From my first Mustang since I was 16 to my last Ive always bought them and fixed them on my own with my own money. The fact that they went through all this trouble shocked the hell outa me and really means alot to me and I just hope it wasnt for nothing because the fact that it may be has really got me tore up. So any advise would be helpful guys. Thanks :??:
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