Re: Courant: "Cap blew off a cylinder because of too much water pressure"

From what is described the engine was just pulling out of the hole at Devil's Gate. Everyone swears no water was being worked so it needs to be chaulked up to magic. The #12 has worked water before due to improper operating practices like not enough blowing down and allowing solids to build up. It has been full before and its been very low before. Its had the literal life worked out it.

The simple fact is she has been asked to do more work than anyone ever expected out of her. The water needs to be kept at a reasonably constant level with considerably smaller temperature swings. The only way to achieve this is the amount of tonnage pulled. This would seem at least to me to be more than a learning experience. Does anybody know the last time Durango blew a head off? I asked a former employee and he said never. Its not a real common occurance. The damage was not catastrophic. But the heads are not really designed to blow out as many are. It bent all 13 cylinder head studs. The head is 15 pieces. We put a newly machined one on a little over 24 hours after it happened.