Hey everyone, I'm putting my engine back together and I want to make sure Im going to go about this the right way.
Heres the story till this point.. I bought this blue 83 5spd with a blown head gasket, i managed to get it to run before taring it doing to cycle through and change the bad fluids. The jack-leg i bought it from had no thermostat or cylinder head temp sensor in it and drove it hot. The blue one has 258,000 miles on it.
The primed auto 82 was my daily driver until i drove it into a ditch during a tornado we had in north carolina. It flooded out and now it not working. Just my luck haha. That car had 170,000 miles on it.
This is where i am so far... I decided to rip anything that was good left in the grey car and put it in the blue one, which was nothing. Either way, a head needed to be decked and put on the blue car so i opted for the one with less miles (primed flooded car) and i sent the head off to get cleaned, decked, and valve stems replaced.
Well the head it done, but this is where it gets kinda sticky.. The head on the primed car is going on the blue car,,, but when i to the original head off the blue car the block looked like this...
Simply put, the block and new head do not match and neither are at top dead center. So what exactly do I do to get everything aligned and running good? short of taking off the front plate if i dont have to.
Thanks! and Sorry for the length i wanted to put in as much detail as possible.