Running out of the obvious solutions, he pulled the head to check the orientation of the head gaskets and also to see if there was a head gasket leak heating up the water passages. The head gasket looked good but he did find that his intake gasket was leaking big time and sucking oil into his combustion chambers. His valves were oil crusted. He had been losing quite a bit of oil prior. Could this be the cause of overheating? Loss of vacuum or hot oil heating up the gas charge?
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