It sould not be that much. You already have done the hard work. They just need to pop out the valves and lap them or replace as needed.

 

Good deal. I shall post the price when I get the work completed. Monday or tuesday-ish.
thanks
brian

 

If you have a straight - edge, or a length of cold-rolled flat bar, you can lay it across the cleaned cylinder mating surface and check the warp by sliding a feeler gauge under the straight edge. Flip the straight edge over and repeat. The average is the amount of bow or warp. You can also check the stem height above the head by following the directions in RAVE (Workshop Manual - Engine V8 - Overhaul - Cylinder Head Overhaul). LR reccomends shaving no more than .002 to straighten.

Print out that section of RAVE and bring it along to your shop. If they are at all uneasy about doing the work, check elsewhere.

 

I don't think I would even use a pressure washer on the engine or other components. What is the need for the high pressure? You can spray either Simple Green or Greased Lighting degreaser on even a very nasty engine, let it sit a few minutes, the mess will drip right off. Wipe it with rags, like old sweatshirt, socks, anything absorbent like that. Very cheap, very effective way to clean a real messy engine/various other items like tranny housing/ diffs etc. without risking forcing water in with a pressure washer.

A gallon of degreaser sprayed on when you work on it, you'll get it pretty clean easily.

 

Because it works the best, is cheapest and our truck are pretty well waterproofed. A degreaser will not clean like a power washer can at least no degreaser I've used.

 

At least you got good taste in Bourbon. I like Gentleman Jack for those special sipping occasions.

 

As far as a good degreaser for inside the valve covers, I would think mineral spirits would be very good. Should dissolve any oil gunk residue.

 

I grabbed the $6 a gallon degreaser stuff from autozone and it worked quite well. I didnt bother to powerwash her just pushed her out of the garage into the driveway and hosed her down after soaking her in degreaser. Worked well enough for what I needed. When she is running again I will treat her to a full detail under the hood.

I gotta take the heads to a shop anyway as I am not comfortable rebuilting them myself so they will do the tolerance check/machining on it while it is there.

more info to follow
brian

 

It is just easts of redmond. I hope that it is going well!

 

All IS going well so far and I hope my luck holds.
UPDATE:
I have the heads at the machine shop getting rebuilt and machined, I have already gotten a poop-ton of fluids for her (doing part of discomike's 60k service while I have her in the garage), parts for the list of little stuff that needs done on her that I never got around to doing on order from AB, and I am going after work today to grab a new OPTIMA battery for her (the old one was VERY dead). I am hearing rumors of a 4 day weekend for us so if that is the case I hope to have her running by monday - <crosses fingers> I can NOT wait to hear her start up!

Once she starts and runs then I start on the long list of little poop that I have been neglecting for so long.

more to follow
brian