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Grampy · 09-15-2021, 10:58 PM

Had another assignment that took me away for a couple days, but maybe it was a good thing to leave it sitting there with a bunch of PB Blaster sitting on everything.

I went into the garage tonight fully expecting to pull the head, but thought I would hand crank the engine one more time just to give it another chance. WOW!!! The valve went up and down several times just like a real valve should! I had to do it a couple more times just to convince myself that it was really working!

So tomorrow I'm going to begin reassembling everything I had unassembled, I'm pretty sure I've got new gaskets on hand. The biggest task will be retorquing the head bolts. I had removed the bolts but the head is still intact. But still, proper torqueing procedures are still called for.

Update in a day or two.

09-15-2021, 10:58 PM	#32
Grampy Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 61	Re: "It ran well when I parked it!" Had another assignment that took me away for a couple days, but maybe it was a good thing to leave it sitting there with a bunch of PB Blaster sitting on everything. I went into the garage tonight fully expecting to pull the head, but thought I would hand crank the engine one more time just to give it another chance. WOW!!! The valve went up and down several times just like a real valve should! I had to do it a couple more times just to convince myself that it was really working! So tomorrow I'm going to begin reassembling everything I had unassembled, I'm pretty sure I've got new gaskets on hand. The biggest task will be retorquing the head bolts. I had removed the bolts but the head is still intact. But still, proper torqueing procedures are still called for. Update in a day or two.