What now?

[Funracer]

Finally got all 8 Dorman plugs pressed in. I had to make them all smaller
to fit - see photo above. They are very tight and sealed. Carquest had a
great selection of plugs and I tried the next smaller size 555-109 but they were too small.

Began reassembly today. Cleaned some Gorilla tape sticky off the
top of the heads and put down Jerry's IH gaskets and dropped on the
IH's, Loctite and torqued all 16 IH bolts per FSM.

Then decided to put on the short fat breather hoses that run from
the breather box to the IH's. Screeeeeeech.

That was the sound of progress halted. After 20 minutes trying to
manipulate them into position I gave up, loosened all 16 torqued/loctited
bolts to lift the IH's about 1/4" to get the breather hoses into position.
Retorqued and called it a night.

Hope to finish tomorrow and then troubleshoot.

[LGAFF]

breath deep, we have all been there

[Pete]

Fun racer you did not need t grind the plugs.

All you needed was a deep socket and hammer,socket needs to be smaller the the freeze plug,if you use a socket that fits tight it won't let the freeze plugs to collapse.

Pete

[Funracer]

Originally Posted by Pete

Fun racer you did not need t grind the plugs.

All you needed was a deep socket and hammer,socket needs to be smaller the the freeze plug,if you use a socket that fits tight it won't let the freeze plugs to collapse.

Pete

When you did this were the heads on the block or on the work bench?

Mine are on the block and plugs are angled down (slightly) toward the floor of the valley. I tried the hammer thing for two days and could never get
one started squarely. No room to swing the hammer properly.

There needs to be a better solution to this issue for those that want to pull secondaries.

Thanks