[TR] Aluminum head?

[Tony Drews]

There are 8 nuts for the manifolds - 4 across the top, one each at the 
front and rear of the exhaust manifold down a bit lower and a pair under 
the manifolds.

You can see the studs for 6 of them here, the rear exhaust bolt is under 
the rear bracket at the bottom.  The front exhaust bolt goes through a 
hole just above the little ear on the left of the water pump.

http://www.tonydrews.com/2007-8Rebuild/DSCN0117.JPG

I'd be nervous about the rope trick if you want to keep the liners in 
place.  I think that's better used if you're going to do a full rebuild 
so will be removing liners later.  An alternate version is a way to hold 
valves in place while they are serviced with the head on the engine though.

I've always needed to pull the rocker shaft to get to the head studs 
under the rocker shaft, but if you can remove them without pulling the 
rockers that's OK too.  I'd be happier with the rocker shaft off and the 
pushrods pulled out (be careful doing that so you don't pull out a 
tappet - although with the head off it's easy to put the tappet back).  
There are 10 head bolts / studs.

Cheers, Tony

On 9/2/2019 9:51 PM, Paul Dorsey wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. Is there a total of eight nuts holding the 
> manifolds on?  I've only removed the top 4 so far.
>
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 10:38 PM Greg Lemon <grglmn at gmail.com 
> <mailto:grglmn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On the manifold, not much concern about loosening the liners when
>     you take the manifold off, manifold shouldn't be stuck with all
>     the nuts off, a little leverage or soft pop with a lead hammer
>     should take it right off.
>
>     Your main concern RE the liners popping loose is turning the
>     engine, pulling the head off or jockeying it around shouldn't
>     loosen them up, friction from rings on liner sliding up might.
>
>     Greg Lemon
>     TR250
>     On Mon, Sep 2, 2019, 9:25 PM Paul Dorsey <dorpaul1 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:dorpaul1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Why don't more cars have wet sleeve engines?  What was the
>         weekness of this idea?
>
>         On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 10:19 PM Paul Dorsey
>         <dorpaul1 at gmail.com <mailto:dorpaul1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Thanks!
>
>             On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 9:18 PM Wbeech at flash.net
>             <mailto:Wbeech at flash.net> <wbeech at flash.net
>             <mailto:wbeech at flash.net>> wrote:
>
>                 Yes, Moss carries an aluminum head, about $3,000.  I
>                 don’t worry about any sequence for loosening, for
>                 tightening  use the sequence in the book, after
>                 tightening to 50ftlbs tighten in steps of 20ftlbs
>                 through the sequence until you get to the specified
>                 105ftlbs.
>                 Bill
>
>                 Sent from my IBM 8088
>
>                 On Sep 2, 2019, at 8:10 PM, Paul Dorsey
>                 <dorpaul1 at gmail.com <mailto:dorpaul1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 Gotcha!  I may be dumb but   I I am dumb, but,I’m no
>                 dummy, I don’t have an aluminum head on my motor. Do
>                 theymake aluminum heads for our motor or do they?
>                 Anyway they’re out of my price range.
>
>                   As I was loosening the bolts that hold the head on, 
>                 I got to thinking, I wonder if there is a sequence for
>                 loosening these head nuts .  Metal bends, You know.
>                 Perhaps that is more critical for something like
>                 aluminum heads.
>
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