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    1968 289 H2O

    All but one, I got all the springs off, but one valve is stubborn and won't slide out of the valve guide. Exhaust number 3, the one that is stuck in the open position in the earlier pictures. Trying to catch up with the photos.
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    common questions from a rookie

    with rotten rear frame rails I would not be "Assuming everything else is solid" "it's completely apart in my garage" so is all the glass out, is the headliner and carpet out of her, how are the floor boards, lay a light under the car in your garage, turn off your garage light and look inside...
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    1968 289 H2O

    It's worse than that man, I have a complete 302 siting on an engine test stand (as in I can run it outside of the car, dizzy, intake, carb, exhaust, all of it is on there) in my other garage, I am just tinkering with this for the sake of tinkerin'. Also, I have been to six different Pick n...
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    1968 289 H2O

    Hold on to your enderwear we is just getting started!
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    1968 289 H2O

    My $5.00 Valve Spring Compressor II say what you will it worked...
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    1968 289 H2O

    My $5.00 Valve Spring Compressor I So it was time to take matters into my own hands. And once again my funky little aluminum vice saved my butt. I bought it at a garage sale 20 years ago for $5.00 bucks. Couple things to explain. I use a bunch of big washers to give me flatability in...
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    1968 289 H2O

    Total Recall The new rental valve spring compressor couldn't pull a bugger out of your nose, what a piece of crap. I guess it's perfect for removing valve springs off of brand new engines or something but not old crusty, rusty, stuck ones. The only thing this thing did was remind me of that...
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    1968 289 H2O

    Made in the USA Well after hunting and pecking I got one valve out, then I tried to get another one out and guess what things went from bad to worse... I broke my valve spring compressor. Man I know what you are going to say: That's what I get for buying cheap tools right? Well, if you...
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    1968 289 H2O

    Man These Things Are Stubborn Man I have used this valve spring remover tool before to remove the valves out of my '83 Shovelhead and it worked great, but these darn heads are stubborn. I tried to go in order but some of these springs would not budge. If you look at them you can probably...
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    1968 289 H2O

    Not only that, but I was trying to use big shovels on a small block, duh!
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    1968 289 H2O

    Secret Workshop Facility - SWF Then under the cover of darkness the heads were transported to my Secret Workshop Facility commonly know as the SWF. Only then equiped with the least and cheapest tools possible could work begin. Don't let the strip of the hardboad fool you that is specifically...
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    1968 289 H2O

    Post of the Year !!! I can't believe I missed it the first time. :hail2:
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    1968 289 H2O

    Oh yeah, but forgot the ice!
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    1968 289 H2O

    Nothing Good Ever Happens At Home Depot So I needed new wire brushes for the drill. So I went to Home Depot. I don't recall what happened next. I blacked out, all I know is I still need new wire brushes, LOL ! and they say men can't Multitask, paleaze, am I right fellas?
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    1968 289 H2O

    There's always one I've said it before and I'll say it again, now matter what you work on there will be that one bolt or screw or what ever fastener that just won't wanna come out. Well it happened to me again. When removing the heads, I believe there is 10 big bolts per head, and there's two...
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    1968 289 H2O

    It's a Kundis! come on give me a bump if you know where that saying came from? anyway I just had to know what engine I had, you know many of these 40 plus year old cars have been frankensteined over the years, so you really don't know what you got I don't know about you but the only way...
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    1968 289 H2O

    The Greg is building an Electric Bike, Google Wattana and hoping to convert a Cavalier to Electric when funds permit.
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    1968 289 H2O

    More Head Cleaning cleaning and checking out the exhaust port side of the cylinder head, don't look bad at all, I'll add the fourth picture when I'm done with this side, for now I just wanted to show the contrast
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    1968 289 H2O

    800 miles, from my city to yours, so if I rebuild this thing and drive it to your house, will you buy me a beer?
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    1968 289 H2O

    Starting on the heads 15 minutes later after a wire wheel and an electric drill and look at the two heads side by side, 15 minutes later! then I went on to clean the other head
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