time for some updates. Last fall before putting the car away for the season I did a compression test and leakdown test. I found that cylinder 1&2 had low compression and were leaking at the intake valves, so i tore the head off again and sent it out for new valves and seals.
and the head comes off again

I start to assemble refurbished head

I installed all new valve lifters , I used lucas as assemble lube

A shot of the bottom of the cam and the head with the new valves and new precups pressed in

a look at how bad my old precups were burned out from over fueling and high egts

Next I installed the cam and torqued down the caps

glowplugs were next

then injector heat shields and injectors torqued to 51 ft/lbs



Exhaust manifold studs installed

Intake manifold torqued to 15 ft/lbs

Exhaust manifold spacers installed

Finally the exhaust manifold gets torqued to 15 ftlbs

the kkk 24/26 gets bolted to the exhaust manifold and torqued to 50 ft/lbs

Now the head the ready for install so I cleaned the block and put in a new 2 hole head gasket and placed the head on the block. I reinstalled the arp head studs and applied the arp approved lube and torqued the head to 75 ft/lbs.
I connected all the hoses and put some coolant in it started write up!