Re: alfa-digest V8 #62 - Stubborn head

[AlfaNeely@domain.elided]

       Did you undo the two bolts that got up into the head from underneath 
the front cover?  If so, compressed air might help pop the head off.  Rope 
stuffed down the spark plug hole could help.  There is also a factory ( I 
think ) tool that screws into one or more spark plug holes and levers off the 
tops of the head studs to pry the head up.
       I have never had much trouble getting the head to come off.  The worst 
required that I get a big rubber hammer and beat it loose.  Of course, you 
need to get the intake and exhaust out of the road to swing the hammer.

Ciao,
Russ Neely
Oklahoma City

In a message dated 09/19/2001 9:51:47 PM Central Daylight Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 101 20:24:24 +0000
> From: rayday@domain.elided
> Subject: Stubborn head
> 
> I recently purchased a 1974 spider. It has a 
> blown head gasket. The car had been sitting for 
> the last six months. There is so much water in the
> crankcase it is pumping up to the cam shafts.
> 
> I am in the process of trying to crank the engine 
> with the head nuts loosened, to release the gasket
> and have only got a couple pops out of it. Would 
> it be possible to apply air pressure to one of 
> the cylinders to break it loose?
> 
> Thanks, RAY

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