Recent content by morsim

Hey man, did you ever get this going? Would love a pic as well.

Oh yea, that's one thing I forgot to mention. I adjusted the lash too before putting the valve cover back on for good (after she was hot, of course). Would it be wise to replace the cover gasket any time I remove the cover (like for valve seals), or can I just rinse and reuse?

As it may be known I've been in a time crunch for this project and was just set on a date of completion that I wanted to meet at the very least with a reassembled vehicle since I'd be away for the next 7ish months. Would not mind having to come back for round 2 with more time on my hands, but I...

Ouch, those will only come the day I leave. Can I just use sealant as you mentioned here with the de-bridged FelPro inter-manifold gasket and FelPro manifolds-to-head gasket instead, or was sealant a given even with the better gaskets?

Understood. This is a self-blame situation. Don't mean to put anything on y'all in the slightest. I, with my lack of understanding coming into this repair, thought it'd be an in and out job. A few days max. I am leaving the country in about a week and would surely never had taken this on right...

Unfortunately I haven't quite been in the game long enough as y'all folks to truly understand the extent of what needs to line up for what I thought was just a "remove old and pop in new gasket" job. Coming into this project as my first I was not expecting such fine grained requirements as I've...

Hmm thinking back, I did the thumb pushdown test from the side top part of the spring and not from the little round metal part where the rocker arm meets, so maybe my test didn't actually tell much... Being my first rodeo I'm really a bit clueless on testing. Would love to hear your input. P.S...

Negative. Although I did notice that after coming back from the shop (forgot to test before), most of the valve springs were (with two-thumbed effort) compressible by hand - except the ones that had bent pushrods attached to em (+ a couple others that I may have just not pressed hard enough...

Wow, quite comprehensive. Thank you Dan. I will report back after following your process.

:eek: thx. Will need it. Whatcha say?

Cleaned by the shop and apparently painted blue? Unless that's the original paint... Possibly resurfaced since it is clean although wasn't shiny. Did a visual on valve seals and nothing seems cracked at first glance, though I've seen videos of people changing those seals with the head attached -...

@slantsixdan got er back from the shop. Opted not to do a full head rebuilt since I'm on a tight money & time budget and because there wasn't any overheating I'm gonna take the gamble for now and stick w/ the old block... We'll get em another time (hopefully won't need to tho :thumbsup:) Now...

Is it safe to spray brake cleaner into the cylinders and use compressed air to blow out all the loose crap near the ringlands? Or is that a no-no since it risks just pushing things deeper into there..?

Here's a peek inside + a quick cleanup view of all cylinders

It's loose carbon though. Will check for cross hatching tomorrow. About 75k mi on the engine.