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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> I am rebuilding a Standard Vanguard head for a ’53 Morgan. The head has a crack or previous corrosion in the middle of the water jacket between cylinders 2 and 3. There is like a little triangle on each side of the middle and there is a crack and some of the metal eaten away connecting the triangles. It wouldn’t have to match up with anything else on the block in this area and the area where it meets the cylinder liners is still good. I am trying to avoid shipwrights disease. This head already has hardened valve seats and was lapped in. Any downside to using this head?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> A TR3 head would bolt on, but that is shipwrights disease in the making.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> I have a spare Standard Vanguard head that last ran in the ‘50s and is really rough. I could build this, just a lot more time and money.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> TIA,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> -Bill Brewer<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Tehachapi, CA<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div></body></html>