Heya boys, and girl! First off let me introduce myself... my name is Tracy and I'm a disco lover. I have had my " Henrietta " for a good 7 years now and we have lived in (mostly) blissful happiness for most all of that time until the day I figured out that she had blown a head gasket. Determined that I wasn't going to let that keep the old British ***** down I decided to jump right in and wrench her back to health!

I mean, how could I not! We've traversed the grand Tetons, Concord the wild at Yellowstone, braved the wondrous glaciers national park. We have crawled across the deserts of the southwest, surfed the beaches of California. I guess what I'm trying to say is that we've been everywhere together and I couldn't see owning another car. Not even another discovery!

So... after a bit of frustration, that became relieved with a few good sacks with a hammer I have managed to remove the heads for her. I've been cleaning and scrubbing to prepare the block for putting everything back together, but before I do (put it all back together) I thought I would ask y'all for any advice you may have for me.




Head with the blown gasket



The blown gasket



Oh so dirty and sluggy



There's my pretty



Been lightly using a sanding block to take off the stuff I couldn't scrape or scrub off



Other side

So this brings me to the identify this hose part of this post. Brings how I have no words to discribe them I will simply post these pics and let y'all at em. There was nothing attached to them and this is how they have been since I first got the vehicle.





It just stops there and hangs out...



This little piggy!?!

Anyhow, thanks for taking the time out to read this!

 

The last one is a breather hose. It's supposed to be like that.

The first one is a vacuum line not positive where it goes though.

 

2nd pic are dif, trans, & t case breather hoses. 1st can't tell from my phone.

glad you are resurrecting the *****, I like your style...

 

Awesome! Little piggy is breather hose and I need do nothing? Just leave it open?

 

Oui Madame!

 

hallo!

 

Ah that's easy.
Breather hoses for the diff's.
Keep those tied up as high as you can for when you are up to your doors in water.

 

You are now in a very rare club of owners who have tackled the head gaskets themselves.

Congratulations.
Lots of work as you now know.

I did this in 2012 in a parking lot.
Took me TWO weeks after work in April 2012.

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