Blown Head Gasket???

[rhandwor]

You can buy a used head at a junk yard and get a valve job on it. Stop at a machine shop they might have a redone used one for your vehicle. You may have to call a few before you find one. A junk yard may have a good core you could get redone at a machine shop.

[djd99]

Originally Posted by ktl4974

No need for a pressure check! After cleaning, I found a crack between the #6 cylinder and the #4 head bolt hole. Other head/cylinders/gaskets looked great. Now I need to find an inexpensive head replacement. Any suggestions and casting #'s, NAPA was reasonable but it would be nice to find cheaper solution?

Your best option is a machine shop. I know around here my shop has ready to go units for a fair price. The last set I bought I paid 300 all reconditioned and ready to go. I thought that was pretty good considering they usually charge 225 just to go through yours.

[ktl4974]

All finished! I found a reasonable online vendor w/ great service for my cyl head and had a great shop clean and do valve job on the one good cyl. No major problems on reassembly, just took my time and reversed course. The how-to was awesome, thanks for those who contributed. I do however have a coolant leak in the radiator/lower hose area that I need to find soon. I am getting pulley squeal and small amounts of pooling. I hope I can find it...

[b1lk1]

If you reused the factory hose clamps then just do yourself a favor and change them all now for good screw type clamps.

[ktl4974]

Just finished pressure testing the cooling system today and found a leak in the radiator on the drivers side, a little pinhole up. Replaced it tonight and am having no problems with the coolant, however I did get some red fluid (tranny?) that surprisingly came from somewhere. I could not find any leak on lines to rad, but thought it was really strange. I will have to keep an eye on that...

[rhandwor]

The radiator has an internal transmission fluid heat exchanger.