The Disuster
Large success.. followed by a few failures. Chasing an overheating issue, I discovered the head gasket was not gasketting.. So I spent a couple of hours yesterday getting the head off... EASY!! My last head gasket job was a BMW 323... I went in to this knowing that it had a broken exhaust stud, but I didn't know that the gasket was also blown out. That should seal up real nice when I'm done! I broke one of the long bolts attaching the intake to exhaust manifold, which lead to the decision to pull the manifolds apart... and in doing that, Broke the others as well. this seems common with these manifolds. The unfortunate thing is that trying to drill them out didn't work really well. the casting seems softer than the bolts and caused the bit to wander. My solution will be to weld a stud on top for the middle bolt. then do my best at bolting the outside together with my crooked holes... more to come.
Large success.. followed by a few failures. Chasing an overheating issue, I discovered the head gasket was not gasketting.. So I spent a couple of hours yesterday getting the head off... EASY!! My last head gasket job was a BMW 323... I went in to this knowing that it had a broken exhaust stud, but I didn't know that the gasket was also blown out. That should seal up real nice when I'm done! I broke one of the long bolts attaching the intake to exhaust manifold, which lead to the decision to pull the manifolds apart... and in doing that, Broke the others as well. this seems common with these manifolds. The unfortunate thing is that trying to drill them out didn't work really well. the casting seems softer than the bolts and caused the bit to wander. My solution will be to weld a stud on top for the middle bolt. then do my best at bolting the outside together with my crooked holes... more to come.