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DEAN333 |
03-21-2013 @ 7:36 PM
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Just a follow-up Guys: I replaced the nuts one-at-a-time. I had one stud on each head come out with the nut frozen. One I cut the nut off and the other came off after a few minutes of heat from my newly-purchased Benzomatic torch.
TIM CARLIG
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DEAN333 |
03-11-2013 @ 7:30 AM
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Thanks Alan, Mike and the rest. To further clarify, the heads are painted, just not by me.
TIM CARLIG
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ford38v8 |
03-10-2013 @ 8:42 PM
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Dean, Mike is Kubes40, the author of the upcoming '40 Ford book. Yes, I had been thinking of random replacement. MG has the way to go: Remove and replace one at a time in the correct torque sequence. No washers on cast iron heads!
Alan
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DEAN333 |
03-10-2013 @ 8:33 PM
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I haven't painted the heads, I got the car the way it is. I'm trying to make it correct. It had a '41 intake manifold and distributor. I have the correct parts now, in the process of installing them.
TIM CARLIG
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DEAN333 |
03-10-2013 @ 8:16 PM
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Ok Guys, maybe I wasn't clear. I wanted to replace the nuts ONE AT A TIME. I have cast iron heads..#68 6049/50. The '36 book doesn't say anything about washers under the nuts on the cast iron, only on the aluminum heads. In fact, 2nuts on one head and 3 on the other don't have washers. ?? Alan, you disagree at first but then later seem to agree it's ok. Which one of you is Mike?
TIM CARLIG
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ford38v8 |
03-10-2013 @ 6:30 PM
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Good catch, Mike.
Alan
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kubes40 |
03-10-2013 @ 5:58 PM
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Perhaps I am reading too much in to this. However, I must ask, If you painted the cylinder heads, I must assume they are cast iron. Yes? If they are in fact cast iron, then there should NOT be washers beneath the nuts.
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MG |
03-10-2013 @ 4:43 PM
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One nut at a time using the torque-down sequence to remove and replace the nuts.....
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ford38v8 |
03-10-2013 @ 4:09 PM
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Mike, attack the problem one nut at a time.... Why didn't I think of that? Good on ya!
Alan
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Stroker |
03-10-2013 @ 3:58 PM
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Kube: Thanks for documenting what I have been thinking about for some time. When I rebuilt my engine in my 38, I just assumed that like all rebuilds, you spray the engine "engine-color" before you install. Now that I have learned some of the finer points of "correctness", I realize that this is wrong. Good to hear from someone who has tried this trick. I was originally thinking about power-wire brushing the nuts, and then attempting to mask them off before re-coating with paint.
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