Ok I had a bunch of problems with headgaskets. So I said screw it and pulled the motor, then had it gone through. The machine shop took 10 off of the deck, bored the cylinders, cleaned up the cam, turned the crank, and checked the new head for flatness.

I put the motor back together myself and it runs great. It instantly blew the first gasket, that was my bad. I tried to put it on by myself by hand and scooted it.

Put a new gasket on and installed it with a motor hoist and a helper. I know this one was set on straight.

But yet I still blow gaskets?

What am I doing wrong? This is getting really old!

Timing is set at 17* FTW

Please help me fix this pos!

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oh yea and it has about 3.5k on the rebuild.

 

Is the block flat?

 

get some arp studs i see you dont have any in your signature that would be where i would start,

 

I hope you didn't do all that work and not install head studs

 

No I didn't install studs.

The motor has 3.5k on a fresh decking (10 removed). It has never been over 205* temp. It had better be flat!

 

you need to pay 400 dollars to solve your problem

 

get studs they are definatly worth every penny, then if you got a spair grand laying around, get new valve seets, port and polished exhaust and o-ringing, but thats just me

 

Yea that's what I was thinking.

Think it would hold with just o-rings? I just don't have the cash for the studs at the moment.

 

with just o-rings i wouldnt i would much rather have studs over rings, your need to clamp the head down, o-rings alone i dont think will help, your looking for 300+ just for head work with o-rings, if you shop around you will find studs verry cheep i got mine for a steel, but forced to secricy

 

yea pretty close to $400 for the o-rings... I dunno which to do.....