Cylinder-head progress (?)

[Special Coupe Frank]

Well, things are moving along at a glacial pace in my garage.

My '28 Special Coupe blew its head gasket about a month and a half ago.

Finally got a chance to pull the head last Monday, and sent the head to the machine shop for surfacing.

Picked-up the head yesterday; the shop boss said "it was warped pretty good; had to take about 0.015" off."...

Still haven't found ANY indentifying marks on it anywhere - no letters, numbers, diamonds, nothin'... so I guess that means it's an original head ?

Spent last night running the studs on the wire-wheel... they all cleaned-up pretty good... or so I thought.

I decided to spin a head-nut on & off each stud... five of the studs got real tight after starting the nut... a closer look revealed really pitted threads...

So, I decided to spring for new moly studs & a new copper gasket from Snyders, rather than mess around with crusty old hardware.

While I'm waiting for that to arrive, I will clean the block deck, valves and pistons, and see about mucking-out the water jackets...


Truly, I am "not going anywhere fast" with this A...

SC Frank

 

[Russ/40]

Any movement is progress. Sometimes slower is better

 

[Aerocraft]

Most of the "original" heads that I have seen will have a small triangular casting "bump" on the top of the head in front of the water outlet.