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Subject: 3rd duplicates 2 of 2, 52TD Cyl Head stuck]
From: Jim <microdoc@apk.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:28:28 -0400

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: 52TD Cyl Head stuck
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:41:29 +0100
From: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
Reply-To: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
To: "Adam Arabian" <arabian@allegronet.com>, "MGlist"
<mgs@autox.team.net>

In the past I've freed an A-series head by slackening the nuts then
cranking
it with the plugs in.

PaulH.

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Arabian <arabian@allegronet.com>
To: MGlist <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 25 October 1999 03:55
Subject: 52TD Cyl Head stuck


>All,
>    Working on my 52 TD and tried to get the cylinder head off today and
>had zero luck.  All the bolts are removed per visual inspection and
>workshop manual (The rear head cover plate is still on, but I don't
>think that would impede the release of the head).  According to the
>workshop manual you should loosen it up with, er, purcussive pursuasion
>(hit it with a hammer - with a block of wood between to soften the blow)
>but this did nada to it.  I tried lifting it from the visible edges of
>the casting but to no avail (engine is still mounted in the car, and we
>actually were lifting the car up instead of breaking it loose).
>
>    I'm assuming that its just that the gasket has turned to glue after
>sitting for 30 years.  Any thoughts?  Bigger hammer?  Bolts I might have
>missed that need to be removed?
>
>Thanks,
>Adam Arabian
>
>
>

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