I am looking for an American made head gasket for a 6/1.

I have had it with Rocky Mountain Power Source. Eric stalled and flat out lied to me for 4 months before he finally sent my engine and now after 19 days it is obvious he is not even willing to sell his customers parts. I offered to pay for the head gasket although it was under warranty since I really didn't expect his warranty to be any good after the buying experience. He assured me he would send it out. Now 19 days later my engine is still out of commission and no parts.

I am looking for some input as to what to look for and where.

I have a video camera on the engine so I caught the temperature guage raising in time to shut down the engine. I narrowed down the problem to the thermostat sticking. Ironic that it is one of the few American made part in the engine isn't it.

The temperature got up to 230 degrees. My opinion is that that was not enough to break any castings.

The Radiator showes some bubbles when I first start it up and they drcrease as the engine warms up. I still get a few bubbles though.

The head gasket is also american made which me think the head gasket may not be the problem, but if so, what would be the problem.

I have a head gasket ordered and am going to try that anyhow as I think it is the most probable answer to the bubbles.

I was wondering is any body else has has any overheating and what the damages were. Especially where you caught it before it got too hot.

I have an idea for a heat exchanger that consists of a piece of 1 ½ inch pipe running through a 3 inch nipple with a T on each end.

The outside ends of the T are reduced to 2” which is close enough to the outside of the 1 1/2” pipe to weld water tight. Another option would be J.B. Weld.

The remaining sides of the T's are reduced down to whatever size pipe you want to use for the water

By having the pipe/heat exchanger at 45 to 90 degrees it would thermosiphon.

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I haven't tried this, just an idea.

I was also thinking there is enough heat from the exhaust that it would probably be hot enough to vaporize oil and distill out the carbon.

I was thinking you could put a container beside it to keep oil in it as it boils away (liquids seek a common level). You would still have to add oil, but not as often.

Added oil enters at the bottom and vaporized oil exits the top and goes through a big drum of water. Even if the vaporized oil was to boil the water, 212 degrees would still be cool enough to turn the vapors into a liquid again.

Cleaning out the carbon deposits is the next question. Somebody suggested some lye (I assume with water).

I don't know about the insulation qualities of carbon buildup, but I also thought that it might be cheap enough to construct that you could just throw it away and build another one since there is an inch between the outside of the 1 1/2” pipe and the inside of the 3” pipe. Unless carbon is some kind of super insulator, that is a lot of carbon. Since diesel is 3 bucks a gallon now, it wouldn't take many gallons of oil to break even and the rest is free oil/fuel..