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Gaskets gone again

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Accelerating Away
(Posting here because there are more V8's on range rovers. So please dont remove again.)

My 1994 3.9 ES disco with sequential LPG had new head gaskets fitted in aug 06 due to water loss and air bubbles in the header tank plus pressurisation. Has been fine until a couple of weeks ago when it started missing and losing water again. It has had new coil, dizy cap, rotor arm, leads and plugs with no difference to the missfiring.(does it on petrol and gas) It is going back to the same garage who did the gaskets to take the heads off again. There was no slipped liner when last done just a break in the gasket to a waterway. Now seeing as it is missing im guessing that it has gone between two cylinders and possibly by a waterway again. It is a bitt iffy about the heads beeing skimmed as one mecanic said they were done and another said they were okay and wern't done. Also they didn't replace the head bolts which are stretch bolts and i have been told they need changing by another garage. Any ideas???? Also am I being reasnable in not expecting to pay again for this job??
 
I bought a compression tester, about £22/25ish, which has proved really usefull when trying to find out whats wrong with an engine. Well worth having.
 
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