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WOW. I never seen a dipstick that went into the block. My dipstick goes into the oil pan and connects to the exhaust manifold. I have a few CUCV 6.2 engine blocks laying around if you want to start over and build an engine during the winter months. I liked your analogy of the situation. All that...
The heads you removed my still be serviceable. I would take them to a reputable machine shop and have the checked out. The valve seats can be re-seated and the heads can be useful again. I am sure there are a lot of guys driving CUCV's with bad head gaskets at this point in time and hardly even...
I you can zoom in on these heads they have the same pock marks from corrosion. These came off a 13K motor that sat with no hood. I had them machined and everything gone over on them. They are back on my M1008 project. I am a firm believer in replacing the original head gaskets at this point in...
That looks like water damage to me. Like it had water sitting in it and rusted. Maybe a leaking head gasket at that cylinder. Just thinking out loud. Lower left looks like the compression seal was leaking and allowing water to seep in. Low mileage means it sat a lot and had time to corrode.