<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Paul,<div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div>Bill <br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my IBM 8088</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Sep 2, 2019, at 7:54 PM, Paul Dorsey <<a href="mailto:dorpaul1@gmail.com">dorpaul1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="auto"> 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. </div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 8:33 PM Alex & Janet Thomson <<a href="mailto:aljlthomson@charter.net">aljlthomson@charter.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I think the concern was to minimize the possibility of the cylinder liners being dislodged.<br>
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Subject: Re: [TR] removing my head<br>
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That’s my favorite. Jim Henningsen <br>
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> On Sep 2, 2019, at 8:04 PM, Tom Walling <<a href="mailto:pdqtr6@comcast.net" target="_blank">pdqtr6@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I am amazed that this thread has gone this far without anyone mentioning "The Rope Trick"! <br>
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> 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. <br>
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>> On September 2, 2019 at 12:20 PM "<a href="mailto:Wbeech@flash.net" target="_blank">Wbeech@flash.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:wbeech@flash.net" target="_blank">wbeech@flash.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Paul,<br>
>> 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. <br>
>> Bill B<br>
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>> On Sep 2, 2019, at 10:51 AM, Paul Dorsey <<a href="mailto:dorpaul1@gmail.com" target="_blank">dorpaul1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> why does the online manual tend to say the engine needs to be kinda tilting backwards?<br>
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