Garion's Head

[BEEK]

Received head today @ 2:45pm. Began teardown, and cleaning process.








Beginning teardown, Removed cams and housings. Placed them in the cleaner





Removed valves, notice the heavy carbon deposits on the intake valves. Cleaned the valves, Cut the valve faces







Head after valves removed, ready for cleaning





Cam housings out of cleaner, Hardware cleaned up.

[garion]

Beek, thanx for this! I can't wait to get it back...

--John

[BEEK]

should have it finished by mid morning. if all goes well it should be back in route to you tomorrow. Call me tomorrow. Thanks
I'll post pictures of the rest of the rebuild including completed pictures tomorrow

[131lover]

Hi BEEK,Garion, ALL!
Are you running the Fiat express rebuilding/tuning shop? fast work !
What kind of work are you going to do with the head ? Whats the goal, just rebuild?

Best Regards
Alf Andersson "131lover"

[BEEK]

work being performed is a standard valve job, resurface and cleaning. disassembly and reassembly and valve adjustment.
This will give him the head in "ready to bolt on" condition. I do offer performance work as well, including porting, big valve installation, degree camshafts, guides etc. im not a parts supplier i recommend using the sites vendors for camshafts, valves and gaskets.

[BEEK]

update: head cleaning completed, cut the seats, resurfaced the head. then ooops....






inspecting all the threaded holes in the head i found this: #3 spark plug hole. first picture is of #2 all good



helicoil to be installed in the morning!


Then came reassembly, valves were lapped, springs checked, valve seals installed, valves and springs installed.







cams were installed, valves were adjusted







job completed except for the helicoil in the morning

[baltobernie]

What a cool thickness gage! Batteries not included

[garion]

Looks good!

Odd about plug 3 though.. I've taken out, put in the plugs a couple times since I had the car, never a problem with that plug. In any case, it'll be fixed!

Now I'm going to have to clean the rest of the engine bay, cause that head looks so good. *sigh*.

[dantye]

update: head cleaning completed, cut the seats, resurfaced the head. then ooops....






inspecting all the threaded holes in the head i found this: #3 spark plug hole. first picture is of #2 all good



helicoil to be installed in the morning!


Then came reassembly, valves were lapped, springs checked, valve seals installed, valves and springs installed.







cams were installed, valves were adjusted







job completed except for the helicoil in the morning

Post reads that most photos were removed. Was this intentional or just a glitch? What yr. engine is it? Thanks

[BEEK]

sorry i moved files into a folder in photobucket, didnt know it would effect the pictures being viewed, i put them back, all is good now. this is an 1800 head. 1974-1978

[garion]

To be more precise: Its a 78.

[BEEK]

This is the insert and the insert installed.

[131]

i put them back, all is good now.

Nope, still missing photos.

[ga.spyder]

Beek,do you have any pix to put up of the race head you are doing for our Lemons car?
Craig

[BEEK]

yes, ill make a thread for it tomorrow, both will ship tomorrow