Best fast / easy way to clean old heads?
09-10-2018, 10:40 AM
#1
Melting Slicks
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Best fast / easy way to clean old heads?
I removed my 882 heads from my L82 this weekend and they’ve got loads of carbon in the ports but even the hard “glassy” chunks of carbon.
Whats the best fast- easy way to get them cleaned up nice? Just drop them off at a machine shop and have them hot tanked in the “engine dishwasher”? Any idea what this should cost?
Adam
Whats the best fast- easy way to get them cleaned up nice? Just drop them off at a machine shop and have them hot tanked in the “engine dishwasher”? Any idea what this should cost?
Adam
09-10-2018, 11:44 AM
#2
Melting Slicks
I would take them and have them cleaned and checked. Those heads were prone to cracks in the valve seats. I would invest in some alum. Heads or better cast iron ones. My L82 heads cracked. I got some Dart iron eagle II. Better flow and smaller comb. chambers.
09-10-2018, 11:51 AM
#3
Melting Slicks
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Adam
09-10-2018, 12:18 PM
#4
Team Owner
The best thing for heads is media blasting. Just tape up the painted area. Use a wire bench grinder to clean up the valves
09-12-2018, 05:56 PM
#5
Race Director
selling 882 heads? you won't get 25 bucks! their resale value is 5 cents a pound...
09-12-2018, 07:47 PM
#6
Melting Slicks
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Having their crappy air flow, heavy *** weight, and potential cracks on someone else's engine is better than on my engine.
Adam
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09-12-2018, 07:54 PM
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Best way to clean 882 heads is to drag them behind a pontoon boat. Then a couple years later, decide if you want to hoist them aboard or not.
I put an ad on Craigs for 882 heads for $50 pair. No takers. Then $40. No takers. Then $25, still no response. Donated them to a scrap iron drive.
Heavy, no flow, small valve, small ports, low compression boat anchors, sorry.
I put an ad on Craigs for 882 heads for $50 pair. No takers. Then $40. No takers. Then $25, still no response. Donated them to a scrap iron drive.
Heavy, no flow, small valve, small ports, low compression boat anchors, sorry.
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09-12-2018, 08:20 PM
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St. Jude Donor '05
Due to the low mileage Id put them on CL just the way they are, dont sink any money into them. Im afraid if you make them pretty, magnaflux them you may not even get that back.
09-13-2018, 06:47 AM
#9
essentially saying you don't value something and therefore want to get rid of it. but if you don't value it chances are not many other people will. unless I needed a numbers matching set I would never buy used heads even from my best friends
09-13-2018, 12:04 PM
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Le Mans Master
If you give me $20 ship them to me for free I’ll take them, then recycle them. Any effort you put into checking or cleaning them will exceed their value.