Ath5kdriver is currently carried by linux developer john linville in his. Buy stens 465530 graphite head gasket, kohler 12 041 08s, black. Discussion in mechanic and repair started by roger, nov 30, 2010. Its purpose is to seal the cylinders to ensure maximum compression and avoid leakage of coolant or engine oil into the cylinders. Tips from the gasket expert selecting the right cylinder. Follow the steps below only if ath5k module did not work.
The measurement described below must be performed with extreme care. Sorry to bring this but id be surprised if changing the head gasket is the end of this engines troubles. The charred looking topsides makes me think overheating and that makes me think warpage andor cracking, either head, block, or both. Ath5kdriver began as a fork of openbsds ar5k, developed by reyk floeter. Ath5k is a completely foss wireless driver for atheros based wireless chipset versions ar5xxx in the linux kernel. If a gasket replacement sounds reasonable, this is an offseason task. Leak in a head gasket requires a complete engine rebuild. I know that i could repower with a new engine, but that seems a stretch for a machine this old. If you look at some of the gm forums and edmunds, many people are reporting head gasket leaks. Atheros 5xxx wireless cards support found in driversnetwirelessathath5kkconfig. Tips from the gasket expert selecting the right cylinder head gasket for diesel engines there is generally a large variety of thicknesses of cylinder head gaskets for diesel engines. In order to identify the correct cylinder head gasket, the piston protrusion must be measured. When using a shared key, the driver must be modified with this. With a new head gasket, the tolerances between the cams.
I am leaking water from the head gasket on driver side. A head gasket is a gasket that sits between the engine block and cylinder head in an internal combustion engine. After removing the head, i noticed the head gasket was blown i. He basically said at this point i wouldnt worry about it. Well, after battling with gm and intake gasket problems over the last decade, gm now has head gasket problems on most of the late model high value v6s, both the 3.