Head gasket
09-09-2015, 06:22 PM
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Might as well pull the head if the good canned fix is $65, head gasket is only $35, and I can do the work myself, and have a spare head that I can throw on if the old one is cracked or warped too bad, btw anybody know how forgiving these motors are as far as warpage goes
09-09-2015, 07:48 PM
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If it is all cast iron (which I think that one would be) they are forgiving on warpage If it is to bad to seal but not bad enough to re-plain flat, I have seen people double gasket the head and run it on a not heavily run engine (used to go hunting, towing a john boat to go fishing, 200-300 miles a month type stuff) as an option
09-09-2015, 09:50 PM
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It is a cast iron block and head, and I use the truck a fair amount in the winter and for hunting, ill usually put around 400 miles on it per hunting trip and when it snows I can't drive my car to work so that's a 100 mile round trip and I also use it for a plow truck so it needs to be a good fix. And as long as one of the 2 heads I have is good I'm ok. I just hate pulling the manifold because I have to get a step stool to work on the engine
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09-13-2015, 02:28 PM
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Well I got my starter fixed, the tabs on the bendix came out of the slots on the gear to move it, put them back it and the starter is fine now, started the tuck and still getting bubbles up by the head bolts so I guess it's time to pull the head
09-13-2015, 07:00 PM
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Got the head cleaned up and everything head wise looks good, put it on the table saw to check to see if it's flat and there was a considerable amount of light passing underneath, so gonna have the wife drop it off at the machine shop to get plained down. It did have some spots that looked like water had been traveling through the gasket so that's a good sign
09-13-2015, 07:07 PM
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Should I re lap valves while I have it apart or just leave them alone, the motor seemed to have decent power and when I had it in the Solvent tank there wasn't any solvent leaking through, I did pull a valve out and it looked to be in ok shape, a very slight amount I wiggle but nothing to be concerned with in my opinion
09-13-2015, 10:39 PM
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That is a judgement call, how many miles on the engine? I have heard of people redoing the head and later blowing the piston rings out on high mileage engines, That said, I never could get a straight answer as to what was done to the heads. My first hand experience is it has not been a problem to lap/re-seat the valves when changing the head gasket.
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09-13-2015, 10:48 PM
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Not sure one mileage on the engine, I can still see a good cross hatch on the cylinder walls though so it couldn't be to high of mileage or hard use, it was a motor I bought off a guy for $180 b/c he was wanting to make a trailer out of the back half of the truck. The motor does have good oil pressure, a lot better then the one that was in it
