Engine Top End

[marylandaveo]

got everything apart this weekend except for getting the valves out of the head. Hopefully will find a spring compressor that works for that today or i will rig something up. So far it appears that it is just a blown head gasket. Will not know the full extent of the damage until i get valves out and check the head and block for any other damage.

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Now the assembly

I ran into a huge problems putting the keepers back into the springs. I found this trick on the internets. Works about half the time. I spent more time dicking with the keepers than hand polishing the cams and it's still not done.


When I ordered the keepers from rock auto, it said came in packs of four. BULL who in the sam hell sells just one keeper when they are used in pairs?

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got everything apart this weekend except for getting the valves out of the head. Hopefully will find a spring compressor that works for that today or i will rig something up. So far it appears that it is just a blown head gasket. Will not know the full extent of the damage until i get valves out and check the head and block for any other damage.

I got a spring compressor off of ebay pretty cheap. I would get one, these springs are TOUGH!

[06T200]

I got a spring compressor off of ebay pretty cheap. I would get one, these springs are TOUGH!

+1, it would be nuts to try and free hand these bucket style heads, I would go nuts trying to find keepers every five seconds. lol