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| kconway |
  Jun 28 2008, 01:16 AM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 1,347 Joined: 6-December 04 From: Monrovia, CA Member No.: 3,231 Region Association: Southern California  |
So, I've been reading here that head gaskets are a thing of the past, I guess lapping is in. That said...I pulled the heads off a few weeks ago and sent them out for a rebuild. It had head gaskets on it.
Whats the process for lapping cylinders to heads? Do I pull the cylinders/pistons off the rods as a whole to preserve the rings? Toss the rings and rering too? I did a compression test recently with good results, 135-140-140-138. I was just going to replace pushrod tube seals...this is getting out of hand. What would you do? Kev (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) |
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| dbgriffith75 |
Jun 28 2008, 12:54 PM
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TheGrif Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 25-July 07 From: Iowa, USA Member No.: 7,945 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
Hmm... I guess I'm not familiar w/ "lapping." What is this? Not that it matters much to me- my heads are already installed w/ gaskets. Just curious.
And how have some of you handled reinstalling the cylinders/pistons? The way I did it, and this probably wasn't the best way, was I installed the pistons in the cylinders, froze the wrist pins to shrink them, then pushed the piston out the bottom enough to reconnect the pistons to the connecting rods. Pins slid right in as they were frozen... well, mostly. It did require some light tapping w/ a ball peen hammer. For future reference is there a better way to do it? Sorry- don't mean to jack the thread- but it is a related topic. |
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