Quote Originally Posted by silverscooby
Yeah, every little idea helps. We refilled the radiator and primed the engine a few good times. We scraped off the old gasket with a razor blade but it's not unlikely that a small piece of the gasket could've fallen into the cylinder head.
If it was the paper gasket it would have just burnt up.

Did you remove the studs or did you work around the studs? When I was 16 I did the same thing, thought I got it all off when puttin on my Skunk2, nope. Pull all the studs and get all of it off.

-Ant.