"... how do you folks lift the head off the studs? It's loose, but just
curling that much dead weight at arms' length with my back bent over and my
knees locked against the wing seems like a ticket to the chiropractor, ..."
If you haven't gotten it off yet --
Remove the head bolts/studs & you can slide it over a little. The old
gaskets keeps it from scratching either surface. Easy removal using 2 nuts
back onto the stud only as far as necessary to get both on the stud, Then
tighten against one another. Use open-end wrench on lower nut to loosen the
stud. If nuts are tight enough against one another, this should back the
stud right out.
Seems to me I then stood on the frame rails & just lifted. But, it's been a
few years & I usually removed the hood first anyway. Also, I had heads on &
off often enough everything was relatively loose & easy to do. One year &
did so much in & out, I got complete engine removal down to 1.5 hrs. doing
it alone.
Norm Sippel
now dealing with half the engine, but in tighter space - 948 in Turner.
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