I know you are ready to drive that truck. lol

 

Great!

So where did the gasket fail ? Are the heads flat lol , -true ?

Curious if you were able to pin point the problem.

 

Not really sure what the problem was but it was leaking towards the valley on the drivers side front cylinder. Literally gushing out from there as you can see in the picture. It wasn't a small leak by any means and the heads just got resurfaced so they should be true.

 

Was the block surfaced?

 

My progress today consisted of replacing the heads with new gaskets and installing the cams, can towers, rockers, and secondary chains. hoping to get the primary chains, timing cover, and valve covers on tomorrow and wrap it up next week.

 

That was a thought as well! Or perhaps cleaned up..for assurance anyway (same thing).
It is hard to imagine deformation of the block matting surface. IMO and for deformation to occur it would take some very intense heat..I mean,wouldn't it? Unless I'm forgetting something ?

Shouldn't you be able to clean the block up on your own ? Like say go over it with a square block sand (not very much) with a little coarse, then fine, lacquer thinner wash before head install ? Any one have direction how it's done today lol...guessing.

 

Looks great! So clean lol.

First place I go when hitting this site

 

I used kerosene on all my surfaces. Doesnt hurt the gaskets at all and works perfect. Hopefully the block was decked properly

 

Lacquer thinner is faster, much better than kerosen IMO. Absolutely no residue if you use medium to fast vap. Also, you always hit the dry surfaces, were NO OIL can be present before install with emery before clean. This assures gasket grippage and seal. Kerosen would hinder the install as it leaves residue...oily in nature.

Decking is only needed if the block isn't square..you know, perpendicular to the cylinders. I'm not sure I'd use a block that wasn't or wacked. I guess if you were decking for compression, that's different.

 

Did he have it decked or something?

Thought , he might have since you said that lol.