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Pulled the head this morning and found the headgasket wasnt the issue. Front cylinder has gouge marks in the piston and a burn down to the rings on 2 sides of it. Didnt find anything foreign in the piston bowl so it must have exited out the exhaust valve. Got the engine pulled and gonna tear it down...

Wow! Sorry to hear of the problems you have with it. I had a similar situation with a mower I bought online with them. Im no help on the reverse issue but sounds like a headgasket is bad for bubbles. I just bought one for my 350C on www.agkits.com

Thank you for the description of the valvebody to clutch. I should be more on thought process as an automatic versus manual clutch and that helps a ton. I was thinking it had a dry clutch that operated the 4 speed trans which in turn went to a reverser pump and out to the drives. Are these valves kn...

Ken, Im VERY familiar with clutches and have 2 very good friends who own clutch performance shops...maybe you have even heard of Valair clutches or maybe even Southbend. I know both owners, Dan and Peter, very well. Anything is possible in their eyes! But yes you are right Im not sure how the clutch...

I never removed the shaft from the gear so timing should be dead on yet. The good is that the fuel leak on the bottom of the pump now quit dripping. The engine starts immediately but chugs white smoke and real low on power. It also has the blowby from the valve cover vent and oil dipstick tube. If i...

well after more diagnosis I believe I have a blown headgasket. There is crankcase blowby from the tube and blowby coming from the oil dipstick tube. The knock I thought I heard isnt there now...I assume it was air in the lines yet. Coolant was also down 1/2 gallon. Anyone else experienced this befor...

Ive got a 350C that started running poorly yesterday and smoking white. I pulled the side covers and noticed fuel dripping from the bottom of the injection pump. Figured air was the power loss and white smoke so I pulled the lines etc off and the 2 bolts holding the pump on and slid it back to reali...