Well, arrived at Blue_dreams place on Saturday AM.
He decided to get some used heads from a breakers, instead of rebuilding the old ones - which was fine with me, as it saved a fair bit of work.
I arrived, and he'd thoughtfully cleaned them up spotlessly clean, and the block, before my arrival - which is a good time saver.
I fitted the exhaust manifold and gasket to one of the heads, and we come across a broken, rounded spark plug, pretty much welded into the head
Tried all manner of things, but couldn't get it out with tools available. Got an "irwin" socket to hold well on there - heated it right up - and it still broke 2 extension bars!
Eventually gave up on that idea, I decided it would be as quick to take out the valves from the "new" head, and fit to the old one. so that's what we did - which involved getting a spring compressor, as I didn't take mine.
Anyhow - head build - and they are both now fitted to the car.
Have also fitted the cams, the (correct) shells, cambelt kit, etc.
Compression test is now showing as healthy on all pots
Need to hookup the ancils etc, hopefully next weekend or the one after, and hopefully the old girl will be saved from the graveyard
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Topic: Head gasket progress this weekend (Read 2586 times)