[Healeys] 3000 head heigth

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Sat Apr 12 16:24:34 MDT 2008


Wayne -

Usually you can turn the head upsid down and there's a little
ractangular notch about 1/2" long on the side of the head towards the
front I think.  If that notch is about 1/8" deep from the head surface
you are ok, if the notch is very shallow it means your head's been
milled.

Alan



On 4/12/08, Wayne <Waschu2 at charter.net> wrote:
> HI,
>
>          Does anyone know the head thickness for a 3000 head? I have a
> 3000 head that has previously been milled and it has now warped and
> blown the head gasket. It has a low spot from around cylinders 2 and 3
> to the spark plug side of the head. It was bubbling slightly around #3
> spark plug when hot. The leak seemed to be more compression then
> antifreeze as the antifreeze level never went down and there where never
> bubbles in the radiator.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Wayne Schultz
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Alan

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