Replacing the 196 OHV Head gasket - Part 2
Remove the nuts holding the exhaust manifold to the head:
The head is ready to be removed:
Here is the block with the head removed:
Here is the head, ready to be cleaned up. All old gasket material has to be scraped off the block and the head:
I sprayed both sides of the gasket with several coats of Permatex Copper Spray-A-Gasket:
At least with my torque wrench, I couldn't get to the end bolts with the rocker arm assembly installed. I torqued everything down to 40 pounds, warmed up the engine, and torqued everything down again to spec. I guessed on the end bolts by comparing with bolts on the side and using compound open-end wrenches; however, I'll retorque the whole thing again in 500 miles or so. I was pretty lucky on this whole project because nothing had frozen up on this very old engine. I did make one mistake. I should have opened up the tappet covers to make sure that all of the pushrods were seated properly. One of the wasn't, and I bent it. Be careful here. You will need to readjust all of the valves, of course. I imagine that the proper way is to keep the pushrods in the same locations before and after, but I didn't and mixed mine up, which probably caused more needed adjustment of the valves than otherwise.
Part 1
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