RE: Head Gasket R/R

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@xxxxxxxxx>]

> >5.  If you don't surface the head, make sure to clean
> >the head and block with super-fine steel wool and
> >acetone to make it surgically clean.
> 
> 
> I have the head off my '77 2L spider to change the gasket.  I see 
> references (as above) to "surgically clean".  I'm looking for some 
> definition on this.  I have used permatex gasket remover and 
> have been 
> going over the head and block with ultra fine steel wool.  
> There are still 
> some marks from the previous head gasket.  There's nothing 
> that I can feel 
> with my fingers, or get off with the steel wool, but it 
> certainly doesn't 
> look like it was just resurfaced.  Is that a problem?  Should 
> I keep going 
> with the steel wool?

You should be ok, but don't leave the fingerprints on it - wipe it down
with acetone (both surfaces) before you install the new gasket.

Fwiw, I don't use steel wool, I use emery cloth on a block of wood.  You
want to make sure to leave the surface nice and flat.

bs
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