pooch
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John, how does a Pom sit with a penchant for Yank cars in your part of the world ..
Very Stuck Cylinder Head
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John, how does a Pom sit with a penchant for Yank cars in your part of the world ..
Terry NJ
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Yeah! So I'll bet that corrosion was Not all over the head studs when it was assembled! So where does this crud come from? Is the coolant causing it? In my case, I used Neverseize on my studs for all the good that might do. I'm sure this is what the Ford engineers were thinking of this when they made the switch from studs to headbolts. Sorry I don't have the answers, only the questions.
Terry
Terry
jwilliams81
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I was able to get the front of the head loose with a wood block wedged between the timing gear case the bottom of the water pump. Like this. Then I used regular wood shims like you buy at Lowes or Home depot. I just kept hammering shims on each side of the block working my way to the firewall end of the head. The entire time I would soak each stud with PB Blaster. It took two days but it came off in the end without using a lot of force. Break off the thinner ends of the shims as you need more height.
It worked really well for me.
It worked really well for me.
Ray in La Mesa
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I've had good luck using the steel plate & bolt style head remover but one head was more of a challenge. The hardest part is to get the head to move at all, but once I got some movement I loosened the pulling bolts on the spark plug bolts and pounded the head back down. I repeated this cycle 5-6 times and each time the head came further up. Corrosion around the studs was slowly loosened with each cycle and tin finally came off.
john charlton
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Hi Pooch
American cars were common on British roads between the two world wars . Ford ,Chrysler and GM had big plants here . Between the wars more than half the cars on the roads were T and TT fords . The home manufacturers cried foul and lobbied the government for protection hence the 14.9 HP AF small bore engine . Any vehicle over 15 HP had punitive road taxes . Ford countered this by bringing out the model Y which was designed in Detroit by Eugene Gregorie ,it was a smash hit so the English car industry shot themselves in the foot !!! . No problem for LHD cars here also very easy to convert to RHD but nobody really bothers to do this .
John in cool evening Suffolk County England
American cars were common on British roads between the two world wars . Ford ,Chrysler and GM had big plants here . Between the wars more than half the cars on the roads were T and TT fords . The home manufacturers cried foul and lobbied the government for protection hence the 14.9 HP AF small bore engine . Any vehicle over 15 HP had punitive road taxes . Ford countered this by bringing out the model Y which was designed in Detroit by Eugene Gregorie ,it was a smash hit so the English car industry shot themselves in the foot !!! . No problem for LHD cars here also very easy to convert to RHD but nobody really bothers to do this .
John in cool evening Suffolk County England
Terry NJ
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It was a mistake to try to box in Henry Ford with a law! HF had fought the Selden patent and his royalty in the US years before. Selden held a patent that gave royalties on every car produced and HF wouldn't pay it. So they went to court and HF won. The best part for Selden was that he never produced a car of his own, Just collected the royalties on every one else's! That ended when HF prevailed.
Terry
Terry
