Hello My Friends,

I took the head off green sedan (203k - ran fine.....but) today mostly using the Bentley as a guide. FYI, you don't need to take injectors off or disconnect the fuel rail. Just remove the six nuts holding the intake manifold and pull it back and hold it in place with a bungee. The Bentley is a little remiss in this area.

Anyway, when I brought it to the machinist, he checked for warpage and found the area of the head between cylinder #2 and cylinder #3 where he could slip a .004 feeler gauage in. He commented that this is usually enough to develop some inter- cylinder leakage, but I don't believe that occurred. It appears tha?t both coolant passages adjacent to #2 and #3 exhaust side were leaking and there is some oil residue on the block below which makes me suspect some oil leakage too. He is just going to mill about .005 (I think) off and "resurface the head" whatever that means. He commented that resurfacing is necessary with any head job. OK, the guys been building race engines and ran a machine shop for 40 years. Anyway, he will do the milling and replace the four valve stems.

Question, though, I don't know what the "hushers" look like. I purchased both a Volvo headgasket (kit no available according to Matt and Tasca) and an Erling headgasket kit. Should I install hushers if they're in the kit and tell me what they look like and where they go please.

Anyway, things are looking swell so far. Just a lot of cleanup right now.

Marty Wolfson

Proud member odf the 300K club