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Originally Posted by Tinker
Are you taking the edelbrock heads off or are you removing heads to put them on a block?
The reason I asked is because I had a set of vintage edelbrock 7.5 aluminum heads that we put on a friends engine. After they where on, we hand cranked the motor over. There was some interference somewhere and the motor wouldn't budge. Turns out the heads had been over milled. Luckily we didn't fire the motor up. Might not be your case.
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always check the clearance on heads before you fire it up! with used parts you never know. I have a set of f8 m8.5 edelbrocks on my 239 that i had to mill off about .050 to get the right piston clearance. ended up having to clearance the valve area afterwards but I knew that was a chance going in. I measure the valve pockets and piston height to get a rough idea of clearance and if it's remotely close I will clay the heads with two gaskets on to see how tight things are.