WEATHERBY460

92 v-max4

it has 1 head per 2 cylinders.

I found I had a warped head and a machine shop took .006 off the head. Put back on, still leaks from another spot. Discovered the cylinder itself has a detent, or indentation on top outer edge. What can be done to fix this. Can some be milled off the cylinder to make it flat again? If so, I am guessing the other side thould have this done also?

Thanks

WEATHERBY460

Got my problem narrowed down a step further......

Took heads off, and found a .020 height difference between the cylinders bolted on the sled. The leaky one being .020 lower.
Took the other heads off on the good non leaking side to confirm, and they are set at the exact same heights of one another. Thus making sense and not leaking.

So thats my problem. When I torque the heads down, that gap is causing enough of a difference to leak because of the offset.

Now, could I have caused this problem? I was trying to remove stuck cylinder stud bolts, and I hit them repeatably with a brass hammer. Could I have compressed the base gasket .020?

Please tell me what my next step should be?

Thanks

WEATHERBY460

any tips on removing the cylinder....shes stuck pretty good to the base gasket..............

kccats

Sounds like you have 2 base gaskets or worse none on one!!! Once all the nuts are removed, take your brass or ruber malet and tap front to rear on the top of the cyl(not side to side rod doesn't move that way)! Once the seal is broke free it will rock back and forth and slide up! Since the jugs are coming off it's a good time to clean up the transfer ports as well as the in and exauhst ports too! And the Y pipes! As for the cyl tops just use the sand paper and glass. Did you have the .006 taken off the other head too! How are the rings, might as well replace them!