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2.8 head success!!

Thanks to everyone who helped me out. I got everything done today, including a complete valve grind. I was able to polish the heads and the clean all the carbon and oil off the all the valves. Boy it feels good to have a v-6 again! Turned out I only needed 1 new exhaust valve, everything else was OK.

I got all the mating surfaces as clean as they could possibly be, and the only thing that gave me a problem was getting the intake on.

If anybody wants pics of the blown exhaust valve, lemme know.. I took pics of everything.

Thanks again to everyone who made this a success for me!

Carl

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Carl Saiyed
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I wouldn't start gloating too soon. The 2.8 and 2.9 V-6s were notorious for cracks. If you find water in your oil, you better start thing about a head replacement. Don't look for used ones they're all cracked. Been there and done that. Ron

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R&B

I wasn't gloating, but the heads looked OK.

Carl

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Carl Saiyed

Did the gaskets have obvious problems? If so relax, if not you should just keep an eye on things for a while. If you don't lose any more coolant you've probably got things handled. Bob

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Bob

The gasket wasn't torn but was very wet on the cylinder (gasket was none too pretty, but not totally blown) that had water shooting out the plug hole. I did grind all the valves and the valve seats and hand-lap the valves with

400 gritt compound.

Carl

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Carl Saiyed

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