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Drove the #2 deuce in the Fourth of July Parade in 90 degree heat and low range. Temp stayed normal. No unusual smoke from the stack. Checked the oil and it is clear of AF and starting to darken. The thing is fixed for the moment! A great relief to me and many thanks to TNJ Murray for the...

We did it in the sun at about 84 degrees so it was not too bad. Yesterday the high was about 101. But it is Summer in Texas and you get to check the radiators out to prepare for winter. The real problem with these motors, I think, is no one knows what causes problems because they were all...

OK, I am resurrecting this old thread to bring things up to date. We changed head gaskets three times. The first repair worked until it blew the head gasket completely out of the rear most cylinder. We figured perhaps we had not torqued the head properly. We put on a new head gasket...

Got it running now. Seems to be fine and dandy. A few bobbles along the way, the bolt holding the injector lines to the air compressor got left out causing some leakage of oil, replaced, the usual leaks on the hoses got taken care of quickly. A couple of wish I had known and done that before...

Pics of the homemade tool and the Snap On Torque Adapter. You can see visually the differences and the homemade tool is essential at the front of the engine.

We got the heads off and decked about a week ago. This thread was most helpful in doing the job http://www.steelsoldiers.com/deuce/48620-head-gasket-repair-walk-through.html I got the idea for making a tool for torquing the driver side of the heads from this thread...

A pic of the gasket on removal.

Pulled the heads off today. Number five cylinder has a part of the metal ring blown in to the cylinder area. Could not have been long ago that it let go. I will post pic tomorrow. It was the black gaskets.

I have a couple of projects with him. One is the M135 which we are putting to running again. This will take about ten hours. I expect about $500 for the labor. I also am paying for the valve work and flattening the heads. I expect that to be several hundred also. But, I may just buy a...

I am wondering what others who have replaced the head gaskets experience after the change? Normal running, shortened engine life or more problems?

The engine runs strong. There was some, not a large amount of AF in the oil. Perhaps half a pint total. When I drained the oil I felt better about driving it. But not too far! I do not drive it much, parades and such for the most part, and I think we may have gotten it when it finally...

Yes, I believe so. There are two o-rings in it. Mine were discolored and there was some AF in the oil. We changed it out and I drove it for a few months. Then in early November, when it cooled off around here I drove it and noticed what appeared to be some small amount of steam coming from...

I start changing out the head gaskets today. I thought I had the leak into the oil fixed with the oil cooler repairs. But, yesterday I noticed the radiator cap, new, seeping AF from over pressure when the engine was still cool. I figure the head gaskets are done. So, I take it to the...