When I pull the push rods, they go into holes punched into a beer carton, and
kept in the order that the came out of the engine.
Frank Clarici wrote:
> Ok, here's what I want to guess at.
>
> Push rod in upside down?
> Wrong pushrod? different engines used different sizes, so when you store
> them, use different coffee cans like I do ;) 948 /1275
> Maybe something happened to the rocker arm, did it get bent?
> You can remove the rocker arm assembly without replacing the head gasket.
> Drain the coolant to below the head (bottom hose off at the water pump)
> Loosen ALL the head bolts in sequence but keep the plug side nuts a bit
> snug, remove the rocker and carb side nuts.
> Hopefully the plug side nuts are tight enough to keep the head gasket seal.
> I have successfully reused head gaskets before.
> Hell, I used a used head gasket on a different engine when I was in a
> pinch. Sometimes you just don't have a spare H/G in your sack of spares.
> that was then, I now carry a complete head set in my sack of spares.
>
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> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> The BETTER not BIGGER Healeys
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