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I never run something like coolant until its 'worn out' because something else always fails and since our cooling systems only average 2.5 gallons at the fullest I just pour in some fresh and keep...

Yesterday at 5.30 in the morning while wandering through Walmart I noticed they sold Peak final charge. I have seen many good reviews of it and decided 'lets try it!'

The Zerex G05 I can agree...

Drained out the flushing mixture and that was some nasty stuff coming out. Back flushed and blew out everything with air. Walmart now stocks Peak Final charge coolant so I bought a couple gallons and...

It lives to die another day. Fired off on the first attempt, after how many times of doing these things this time I did not read the book and got it almost perfect. Close enough to start anyways and...

Picked up a can of copper spray and just for say so one of those felpro head-gaskets of doom. Not at all impressed with it, looked through the stash again and found a 5281065 that I bought years ago...

They work very well. https://www.summitracing.com/parts/ARP-400-8014

used thread sealer on them going into the head and lead paste anti-seize on the outside. Every single one came right out...

The arp exhaust studs use 12 point nuts for clearance.

Head is assembled minus the lifters and rockers. I'll do those after it is installed.
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Could not locate my 10mm 12point 1/4 drive...

The stem seals are bright blue, same appearance as the off brand stuff listed on rockauto. I have felpro/oem seals to install. I got pictures to upload later.

I should clarify the cylinder head...

Coming along this afternoon/evening. Got the head pulled and what a mess I found, already wasted the money on another cometic but I will be using an oem 5281064 gasket this time. The block is cross...

Put the pump and housing together with the o-ring and a coating of grey rtv to aid in sealing the flange surface. Valves are lapped in and the head surface got one more session with 600 grit. Clean...

Cleaned up another water pump housing to have it prepped and built up ready to swap out and sure enough it is probably junk like all the others The hose nipples on this one were actually very...

Yeah at work I normally use a big sharpie, easier to clean off. Rockauto shipped the missing valve, I still think I'll use the NOS valves to keep things moving and shelve these for the next build....

Machinist layout blue.

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Cleaned up and re-blued for valve lapping and one more session on the granite with 600 grit.

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Rockauto has screwed me again. ordered 4 valves, they come packaged...

The granite was $25

Using a 24" starrett straight edge that I checked on the table inside the haas at work it was 'flat' and comparing that against the granite piece it was 'flat'

Flatness in...

Fumble on mcmaster, shipping from Chicago not NJ so no arrival until monday. went to work and drilled/tapped the oil gallery holes for pipe plugs.

Not ideal but plan b came about to get the head...

Got a piece of granite today and ordered a roll of 320 grit sand paper to get here tomorrow.

Got the head stripped down. Some pitting on the backside of cylinder 1, fairly noticeable scratch on the corner going from the oil feed passageway to the exterior and on the same end there is a nice...

Did you also do the studs ? I'm going to guess Frank did not change anything so whatever you installed is probably what it still is.


Advance had a stock sealed power replacement cam for $90 so...

Just looked and advance can get a replacement sealed power for less than $100, going to just make it new.

Turned the key to leave Lowes this evening and things were bad. Limped it to a better area to check things out, pulled the valve cover and sure enough this time it is intake #1. This head has been...