Advice for 1970 Sport Satellite

[Moparfiend]

Not gonna ask why the steering wheel needed removing for the heads.

The wheel is an integrated part of the heads via the wheelratchet connection! Its a high performance Mopar patent!

 

[Moparfiend]

Not a lot of sludge. It did get some maintanaince in its life.

See page 3 Jim

 

[Billccm]

Pics on my phone aren't the best. Is the passenger side intake gasket on correct?

 

[Billccm]

Pics on my phone aren't the best. Is the passenger side intake gasket on correct?

 

[Moparfiend]

Pics on my phone aren't the best. Is the passenger side intake gasket on correct?

I think so again P3 shows them more clearly. What didn’t look correct to you?

 

[68Charger440HP]

View attachment 558211 Here we go......

Oil and coolant drained. Header bolts removed but I need to get back under her to disconnect the headers from the exhaust. I have never installed or removed heads. They should pull away as one entire assembly with no further dismantling correct? Any adive here is appreciated!!

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Do you have a wet/dry vac? When you pull the heads coolant will go into the cylinders. A shop vac makes it easy to suck up all coolant.

 

[Billccm]

I think so again P3 shows them more clearly. What didn’t look correct to you?

Looks good; I pulled the pic up on my large PC monitor. Sorry for the false alarm.

 

[Moparfiend]

Do you have a wet/dry vac? When you pull the heads coolant will go into the cylinders. A shop vac makes it easy to suck up all coolant.

Good idea I will see if my old vac work with fluids. Thanks for the heads up 68!

 

[Moparfiend]

Looks good; I pulled the pic up on my large PC monitor. Sorry for the false alarm.

Thanks Bill for checking it out better safe than sorry!

 

[Moparfiend]

Since everything is still together does it make sense to try and run a compression test on all the cylinders? Or does the coolant intrusion complicate the testing?

 

[PP1RT]

Nope. Just yank the heads. They might take a little persuasion to break free. Wooden hammer handle stuck in an intake port and give a little yank. Usually enough to crack em loose

 

[Moparfiend]

Ok passengers head. The gasket looks newer to me but then again I never saw the factory’s. It actually looks just fine. Pistons look clean no major carbon build up. Humm...

 

[Moparfiend]

Driver side came off with the head. Not sure if I did the damage but the gasket was twisted so thats why I think I may have caused that. Not sure...

 

[PP1RT]

Whats going on here?

 

[PP1RT]

And here?

 

[Moparfiend]

Yup that first one is real would that cause a leak? I guess any cylinder openings are an issue. Here are better shots of that one.

 

[Moparfiend]

And here?

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This is the one I was wondering if I caused because it was so bad but it DOES correlate to the two inner cylinders that are filled with water.

 

[PP1RT]

You said you got water out of 3 and 8?

 

[JimKueneman]

which cylinders had water in them?

 

[PP1RT]

Looks iffy here too?