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Red lining temp....
A Dage Neo! How 'bout that!! I just got one for my wife. Had 129K on it. Seemed okay at first, but then started overheating. Turned out to be a bad rad cap gasket! Well, this thing red lined REALLY bad! THought for sure the engine was cooked. A couple weeks later it puked antifreeze from under the hood while on the X-way. The rad top can cracked. We nursed it home by stopping off every so often, letting it cool down, add water. New rad time. Pump and T'stat, too. All is well now. Even though it red lined the gage a few times, it hasn't hurt stuff. From what I've been told, we are DAMN lucky!
Back to Hayzee's issue. Now that you're so far into it...doing the head gasket thing is a good idea. Surfacing the heads? Hard to say. IF possible to do it, then yes. You may not have damaged them. BUt it's better than to put that intake back on and find it's a head gasket. It's better to have them checked now rather than find...yadda-yadda-yadda. Ideally would've been to have pressure checked the system before you invested wrench time. But, it's still not a loss, as you noted, these engines do have a bad reputation. You're just solving issues before they happen. Glad you have a new pump and t-stat to go along with it all. And, at 61, you're still a little young. Us old timers (64) are willing to give you all the help we can...
THis'll be a comfy car when you're finished. It'll be freshened for another 80 to 100K. Keep us posted on your progress, Hayzee.
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