if you have never done one before it can be a pain in the ass.
In fact, even with 30 years experience as a technician and 17 of them with Nissan , head gasket jobs are still a pain in the ass
I'm the guy who posted the other day about my blown engine in my '86 4x4
> pickup. The head gasket went and it got driven a while after that. The
> engine is undoubtably damaged to some extent, but several folks suggested
> that i at least try just opening things up and putting a new head gasket in
> there and see what happens, since that's cheap. Frankly, I don't care if it
> burns some oil; it's a farm truck and is done doing commutes or other major
> miles. If I could get another 10K miles out of it, that'd be GREAT. That'd
> be years of what I use it for.
>
> How hard is it to do a head gasket? I have a lot of tools and should have
> time and weather on my side this summer. I've done a fair amount of
> shadetree wrenchin' in my day but never been that deep into an engine. I'm
> guessing you pull the manifolds and throttle body stuff off of there, take
> off the valve cover, and there are some bolts that bolt the head to the > block? >
> What should I be out there PB-blasting or Liquid-Wrenching ahead of time > ? >
> -jeff
>