Thread: What to do after V8 head removal

Biggin it depends on your budget, some take the short cut cheap way and just get the heads skimmed.
The proper way would be to have the engine shop pressure test for cracks, hardness test to see if heads have gone soft. If all is ok, they put it in a cleaning bath, strip all the valves and stuff reseat the valves , skim it to make sure its flat, re-asssemble, the last time I had a pair done with new valve stem guides it was about $760. That was Orger Engines, they are expensive but do a thorough job.
Cheers, Mario

Mate read this thread. Cheers

New Head Gaskets

Thanks for the advice Mario.
This isn't the sort of job I want to do again in the near future, so definitely worth doing it properly considering I plan to keep this vehicle for a long time yet.
I take it that Orger is near you. I'm considering a guy in Moe that has a good reputation.
Cheers, Alan.

Biggin with attention to detail, cleanliness and RAVE you can't go to far wrong. Any questions I will do my best to assist. Cheers

Originally Posted by biggin

Thanks for the advice Mario.
This isn't the sort of job I want to do again in the near future, so definitely worth doing it properly considering I plan to keep this vehicle for a long time yet.
I take it that Orger is near you. I'm considering a guy in Moe that has a good reputation.
Cheers, Alan.

Hi Alan, Orger is in
Scoresby road Bayswater, they usually ask for the customer to provide the valve stem seals which would be in a VRS kit.

Thanks Ozscott and Mario.
I'll just keep the questions coming then:

Do these injectors just pull out of the fuel rail or do you need a special tool for that? I pulled pretty hard and was worried about breaking them. Perhaps a bit of lubricant will help.
I suppose the new injectors' o-rings come in the head gasket kit.

Cheers,
Alan

on mine, there was a clip holding the injector in place.

the clip isnt obvious but comes out easily so just pull round.

Hi mate. I didn't remove mine from the rail. Have you got RAVE? Cheers