Help please... cant get the head off my block to save my life... pics
10-24-2009, 05:55 PM
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Help please... cant get the head off my block to save my life... pics Well I inherited a small block 400 a while ago... going in the 69 GTO project
The motor seems to be in great shape
It was rebuilt, ran in a blazer for a while, than pulled... i thought about dropping it straight into the GTO but decided I wanted to build it up a little different and better
SO i started trying to take it apart... only thing is
THE F**KING HEAD IS STUCK ON AND WONT COME OFF
Ive tried putting pressure on the head with an engine hoist and using a pry bar in the intake port, water hole, exhaust port.... ive tried chisseling it out (carefully!)...getting some of this gasket dissolver.... anything and everything and the ************ wont budge
Ive tried for 2 days now and am at wits end....
any ideas thoughts or suggestions??? WHY WONT IT COME OFF!!!!!!!!!!
I have taken a total of 17 head bolts out.....
Heres a link to my photos of the head and engine... id of uploaded them on tech but cant get it to work
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...&id=1518846205
The motor seems to be in great shape
It was rebuilt, ran in a blazer for a while, than pulled... i thought about dropping it straight into the GTO but decided I wanted to build it up a little different and better
SO i started trying to take it apart... only thing is
THE F**KING HEAD IS STUCK ON AND WONT COME OFF
Ive tried putting pressure on the head with an engine hoist and using a pry bar in the intake port, water hole, exhaust port.... ive tried chisseling it out (carefully!)...getting some of this gasket dissolver.... anything and everything and the ************ wont budge
Ive tried for 2 days now and am at wits end....
any ideas thoughts or suggestions??? WHY WONT IT COME OFF!!!!!!!!!!
I have taken a total of 17 head bolts out.....
Heres a link to my photos of the head and engine... id of uploaded them on tech but cant get it to work
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...&id=1518846205
10-24-2009, 09:07 PM
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from the pics, it looks like the block and heads were painted as one. try scoring the paint where the head meets the block.
you got a 20+ year old engine. its gunna take some muscle to get it loose. spray the outside and the inside (through the plug hole) with some penetrating oil.
you got a 20+ year old engine. its gunna take some muscle to get it loose. spray the outside and the inside (through the plug hole) with some penetrating oil.