Howdy,

Go to http://www.pbase.com/stealthfti. Scroll down to: to find some good aluminum, headbolts, headwork, and Tight Squish...NA style. Be sure to click every picture and every link in those articles. Good stuff, man. There is other good stuff there too. Those articles mentioned are appropriate to your immediate needs.

Then you can ease over to http://www.k-jet.org. Navigate to the Green Books for the 200 series. Find TP30170-2 engine reconditioning. It is a two part download. You are most interested in Part 2. It has the information on reconditioning the head. There are differences between your B230 and the B17-B23 engines in that book. Don't fret over that; it is the general procedures and information that is most valuable to you from those publications.

At a minimum, check the mating surface for true, the minimum distance from the deck mating surface to cam cover gasket surface, the valve guides for wear, install new seals, and lap the valves to the seats at reassembly. You will need shims to adjust the valves. IPD has a kit they will rent to you and charge only for the shims you use.

A Bentley manual for the 240 will be helpful. As would a Haynes manual for the 740. You could also subscribe to www.alldatadiy.com. I do for my wife's Ford and my 1982 245.

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