[TR] removing my head

[Wbeech@flash.net]

Paul,
If you have removed all eight intake/exhaust manifold nuts, along with disconnecting the choke cable/fuel line/throttle linkage, you should be able to give it a good wiggle and pull it back out of the way.  Pick it up and set it aside, leave the exhaust manifold just pulled back a little from the head.  

Now, when I have all the stud nuts off I just use a very large screwdriver or tyre tool between the water inlet at the front and the water pump to break the seal and lift the head off.  If you don’t have all the rigging to lift it that high, ask a friend to help.  Have never used the rope trick.  
Bill 

Sent from my IBM 8088

On Sep 2, 2019, at 7:54 PM, Paul Dorsey <dorpaul1 at gmail.com> wrote:

 I first loosened The manifold nuts, and then loosen the head nuts and that was the end of the first day. Although these nuts have  been loosened  now,  nothing has broken loose from its original tightness.  I tapped on the intake manifold and then  freaked out  that it might break the cylinder loose and I certainly don’t want to do that so I quit Tapping. I also wondered if I had to take the rocker  arm out first?  So far, nothing has broken loose from its original locked  position. 

> On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 8:33 PM Alex & Janet Thomson <aljlthomson at charter.net> wrote:
> I think the concern was to minimize the possibility of the cylinder liners being dislodged.
> 
> Alex Thomson
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [TR] removing my head
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> That’s my favorite.  Jim Henningsen 
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> > On Sep 2, 2019, at 8:04 PM, Tom Walling <pdqtr6 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > 
> > I am amazed that this thread has gone this far without anyone mentioning "The Rope Trick"! 
> > 
> > Stuff a length of rope into one of the cylinders (one near the bottom of its rotation) until the cylinder is full of rope. Then use the starter motor to break the head gasket seal and lift the head off the block. No need for cranes, pulleys, explosives, or a Sky-hook. 
> > 
> > 
> >> On September 2, 2019 at 12:20 PM "Wbeech at flash.net" <wbeech at flash.net> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Paul,
> >> That sounds more like the instructions for engine removal, not just the head.  You pull straight up to remove the head so as not to bind on the studs.  
> >> Bill B
> >> 
> >> Sent from my IBM 8088
> >> 
> >> On Sep 2, 2019, at 10:51 AM, Paul Dorsey <dorpaul1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> why does the online manual tend to  say the engine needs to be kinda tilting backwards?
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