Quote from: Trev0rbr on June 28, 2012, 09:05:57 pmwd 40 is alot thinner i'd atleast try motor oil, but gear oil will be best. regardless with numbers like that you're gonna have to pull the head and see whats going on.okay i have some gear oil how much would you say i should put in there? like a tiny bit or a good amount? ha and yeah i figured im gonna have to anyway now with pulling the head can i just take off the valve cover and then take off the head bolts and pull the head with the intake and exhaust manifolds still on i just dont want to have to take all that stuff off such a PITA lol i could just use my engine hoist and just pull the head up keep everything attached? i dont see why that shouldnt be a problem right?
wd 40 is alot thinner i'd atleast try motor oil, but gear oil will be best. regardless with numbers like that you're gonna have to pull the head and see whats going on.
Just be sure to have that head and manifolds on something solid, like a chain. Not that nylon rope trick used by another here on the forum that will remain nameless for a while.
...BTW your Bieber avatar is awesome.-Malone
Kind of what i was thinking. A bump of something that didn't get out of the way. Hopefully the head doesn't suffer. Might get by with a good cleaning and reinstall all parts. Check compression prior to manifold bolt on and see if problem is solved.
Ah the rest of the story now eh? Ok sounds like you didn't clean out the head bolt holes well enough before you put things together. They should be aired out with a compressor air hose and have a bolt run down and back out so that it comes out clean. It is called chasing. Don't need to tighten down. Lots of junk gets in them even if you are careful. So being the cheap and optimist type I say lift the head. Inspect and clean and reuse what you have. If the head gasket it Fubar then by all means get a new one. If you have old head bolts hanging around cut the heads off four of them and use them like alignment tools for the next gasket. Bolts in the corners, gasket on, head down then pull a cut off bolt and replace with the real deal. Check that head gasket coming out for some sort of mashed edge or gob of something stuck onto it. Then get a light and a mirror and see what that head looks like. Is there some part embedded in the head that would have prevented the sucker getting on there flat in the first place?Can't keep up with the questions Tim.Adjusting the valves is an exercise in math. You have a shim of x thickness. you put them all in and after the cam is all tight you measure the distance between the cam and the follower. If withing tolerance for cold engine great otherwise you have to note the amount of greater than spec or less than spec you have and subtract or add that amount to get to the correct distance between the cam and follower after you replace the shim. that is why there are so many choices. It depends on valve length, wear, valve seat and a bunch I am forgetting. You might be able to move some around to keep from buying any new ones since you have a bunch to choose from. Feel like I am writing the Bentley manual all over here. Do you have one? Library may.
i torqued them all to 36 or whatever the book says.
Ahhh Moment. Maybe none thus head isn't really down at all. But with the trouble he had getting them to 36 perhaps removing and cleaning and trying again with the extra 90 degree turn will be the ticket to success here. I wouldn't just crank them down based on his description of the install.