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Thanks Les, good to know. I never asked my track, but I will!

Great Job!

I looked up re-certs, after shipping it just was not worth the wait. These cost me about 10 bucks over the re-cert price. Xtreme and MOKAN don't look at them. Deb is happy now.

Damn Lawyers.

I never moved the dist during the head replacement. I was pretty sure it would light off right away. I did something right for a change.

Yea, he left!

LOL, I will love to see some Blue Sky!

I have .091 off the block as well. So I hope around 10.75. Steel shim gasket. That other head should have been at least 12 something, but that is another story. Man I appreciate all you guys following along. I just ran it again with water and I don't see any mixing. I let it get to 200 deg. or...

Here you go: Now to add water.

Patience Grass Hopper.

Back at it after Eclipse friends left. I had hoped to get it started today, but just ran out of me. But I do like the way that ARP Lube works, head pulled down so nice. I clean all the extra goop off so it doesn't run all inside the engine. It's hard to clean. Maybe tomorrow I will get it started.

Picked up my head from the shop today. Man prices have gone through the roof. Glad I took all my parts and just needed machine work. But I am very happy with the work and how it turned out. 50 thousand cut, so now the head is cut .100. Bronze wall guides, 11/32 stem valves. 1.78 Intake, 1.50...

I think I have enough room for a stud. So I will get some studs and seal them in.

I used the wire deal, they are all about .6 inches except the last one which is .9 and doesn't go into water.

I agree!

The easy to see one is 5/8 till it hits water. I am thinking mcmaster carr studs and opening the rocker shaft holes maybe to the next drill size. That should allow it to clear the studs going on. I talked with Will and he mentioned with his roller he has very high spring pressures. It makes it a...

Haven't measured them, but may be a half inch? It will be harder to measure the ones that go into the waterjacket. 6 of the 7 go into the WJ.

Maybe, problem is the threads are not exactly 90 degree, some have a little lean to them. I was thinking about threading some Allen set screws down and cementing them in. Then I can run bolts down and not worry about water coming in. Not sure the best solution right now.

I also worked on the throttle bracket today. It was cantilevered and I wanted to take all the flex out of it. Steel rod from bracket to the fuel log mount.

Not going to use that head right now, I have plan B at the machine shop right now. This head has some of the best porting I have ever seen, but I don't like those pedestal at all. I need to come up with a good solution.

Knowing the problem and fixing it are two different things!

FOUND IT! Like Derek Bieri on Vice Grip Garage, "Well, I'll be dipped!" PO of the head milled all the rocker supports flush. He told me, be sure to Blue Loctite all the bolts holding the aluminum rocker supports. Well I didn't associate Blue Loctite with water sealing. This picture shows the...

Long Read. Waiting for the machine shop and the head work. I worked on the rocker arms today doing a bunch of checking. Here is what I found/decided. Started with a stock rocker shaft and arms. Stock shaft has a ground flat on the front end, top. This places the small oiling holes on the bottom...

Yea, just saving cash at this point, now if I had your money........... It's not o-ringed. But I had a HECK of time getting un-stuck and pried off the top of the block. Stuck like Chuck.

That is a long way too go, I don't see any trace of that happening on mine.

I took the head I ran last year to the machine shop today. Bronze wall guides, narrow stem valves, performance valve job and a .050 cut. We talked about the other head, he wanted it to pressure test. But if it's bad at this point, what would it help, other than to know what was wrong. I looked...

Yea I thought about that, but... It came advertised as a good head, been run many times, without issues. I did nothing but clean it, lap the valves and get the springs and retainers.

Yea I know he is!

I did four oil changes to get the milk out, last one looked like fresh oil as it came out. Now to take the head to the machine shop and take my back up plan with me. New valves and a little more shave on my last head. Boy do I wish we had an aluminum head.

It's mixing oil and water. Trying to figure out what is causing the problem. It's the new (to me) head or the copper head gasket. Changing the oil multiple times to try and keep the block from turning to trash.