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05-11-2010, 10:58 AM | #1 |
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Cylinder-head progress (?)
Well, things are moving along at a glacial pace in my garage.
My '28 Special Coupe blew its head gasket about a month and a half ago. Finally got a chance to pull the head last Monday, and sent the head to the machine shop for surfacing. Picked-up the head yesterday; the shop boss said "it was warped pretty good; had to take about 0.015" off."... Still haven't found ANY indentifying marks on it anywhere - no letters, numbers, diamonds, nothin'... so I guess that means it's an original head ? Spent last night running the studs on the wire-wheel... they all cleaned-up pretty good... or so I thought. I decided to spin a head-nut on & off each stud... five of the studs got real tight after starting the nut... a closer look revealed really pitted threads... So, I decided to spring for new moly studs & a new copper gasket from Snyders, rather than mess around with crusty old hardware. While I'm waiting for that to arrive, I will clean the block deck, valves and pistons, and see about mucking-out the water jackets... Truly, I am "not going anywhere fast" with this A... SC Frank Last edited by Special Coupe Frank; 05-11-2010 at 12:28 PM. |
05-11-2010, 11:16 AM | #2 |
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Re: Cylinder-head progress (?)
Any movement is progress. Sometimes slower is better
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05-14-2010, 05:14 PM | #3 |
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Re: Cylinder-head progress (?)
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