Engine Top End

[WyrTwister]

Find another machine shop .

God bless
Wyr

[marylandaveo]

I will be tearing a head apart starting tomorrow, how did yours turn out and what advice to make things easier?

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I will be tearing a head apart starting tomorrow, how did yours turn out and what advice to make things easier?

Still working on mine. I finally got the last bit of advice and will be putting mine back together. You need a clean space for the head and in the manual there is a specific pattern in loosing the head bolts and cam bolts. Once you break the bolts, use a powered screw driver to remove them. Goes fast that way.

Keep every thing arranged by position and number. Take a look at my tear down pictures above.

[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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Well after talking to an other shop and really looking at my valve guides I have decided to assembly

Now it's time to get the head cleaned.

Before sanding


Sanded down with 220/400 grit sandpaper


Cleaned the exhaust ports and surface. Used a dremil tool


Got the intake ports all nice and clean


Used 800 grit paper and went after the cams. Before


after

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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!

[Daox]

Doh, the pics aren't working.

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Doh, the pics aren't working.

Pictures are fixed. Sorry about that. Nothing like engine porn first thing in the morning or evening!

[06T200]

Sucks about the keepers, looks like you are on the right track. I feel helpless for the most part since my tooling is thousands of miles away lol - Don't forget you can always just kiss the seats with stones after just to true up the seat, the angle cuts can just float if needed. - I would just see how they lap on the seats with compound, or use the blue die and 'slap test' to see where it is landing, to see how far off they are. Best advice I can give is be VERY careful with the seats, you need them wide enough for heat transfer, be sure to hold any widths of the seat faces. I was hoping you would find a shop with the cutters needed - even if they just hit the valves with new guides like I did.