Hi Guys,
I mentioned the last day or so that I finally got my high dollar (to me) head on. I cold set valves and cranked er up last nite to check for leaks. Well drn it I have the old bugaboo I'v haven't had before..water leak either at manifold stids or at head.
I would discount head leadk because I used ARP studs and a Felpro gasket but admit it is possible. I want to look at studs first because the leak (which I can't see clearly, seems to be at the end studs and maybe near the middle. While not lazy I am not looking to remove everything for starts. Snce the manifold studs were put in the head (standard studs) hand tight after coating threads with anti sieze, do you think removing the suspect nuts and washers and using RTV on those threads then tightening with the old jam nut trick would be worth the effort?
When you get down to it, I don't know how I can pressurize the head to see where a leak may be. I was thinking fo these studs because the leaks are small and the rear one is only steam and engine runs fine, just a liittle rough from valves needing fine adjustment. The head was of course pressure tested in the shop and magnafluxed for hidden faults. Like slant six dan says I would prefer to fix the problem rather than look at symptoms, and in this case taking everything apart won't do a thing to systematically check or solve the problem.
Thanks
rock
'64d100
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