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Alright i made it into a sticky [^] If i had known that it would turn out like this i would have taken a set of more detailed pictures and wrote up a set of step by step directions for everyone... i guess there's always NEXT time :rolleyes:

nope.. came off fine with a 2 ton come-along.. it is a little lop sided due to more weight on one side. but if you have someone hold the turbo and guide the heads down while person #2 lowers the heads back onto the block. ours went on fine with me guiding the heads onto the studs and bomar...

overall i would rate this project a 5 out of 10. not real hard.. just lots of tedious work. forgot to take the cam with us on the road test. but she runs great. Head gaskets run about $75 each for these things , but I found a complete NIB engine set (8 billion gaskets in set) for $140...

all put together and running like a top

Last item.....we are ready to road test!

No bandaids needed...but close.

installing the fan. WATCH THOSE KNUCKLES! :smilewinkgrin:

Valve lash adjusted (Intake .010, Exhaust .025 ) injectors and return lines in, and closing it up... <!-- -->

Another shot of me hard at work.....notice we just stand in the engine compartment to work on it. <!-- -->

myself installing water manifolds that go from intake manifold to heads <!-- -->

Installing rockers( that would be member Bomar76 in the pic, big thanks to him for helping out!)

Heads on, rockers next

Turbo/intake

We completed the project in record time....7 hours start to road test. I don't think the depot maintenence people could come close to that

Pulling the heads was a chore....the intake and exhaust manifolds are a major PITA to try to remove; so we pulled both heads, intake, exhaust, turbo, etc as a unit. This mass weighs about 400 lbs. I should have snapped a pic of the gantry crane we built to pull it. It had to roll, span 8 1/2...

It actually didn't run that bad, all things considered.

my deuce started running like sh!t, and we suspected a blown head gasket. Tore into it yesterday AM and here is what we found....this is the rear head, cylinders 5&6: