I have a Ford 289 engine from a Mustang I bought in Feb 1966. It has 60K miles on it and has no problems. I want to drop it into my daughter's '66 Mustang. How to I find a shop that can correctly install new hardened valve seats in the heads. We are in Greenville SC and I don't know of a high quality performance machine shop that can do this. Where are you located? 🙂 Thanks for any help.
Yup this totally happened to me. My gaskets didn't have any markings on it and you think that the open ports must go towards the water pump. Right? ….. NOPE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!!! YOUR VIDEO HERE JUST SAVED MY FORD 302 ENGINE FROM CERTAIN DEATH!!!
I built myself a Ford 302 engine w/ aluminum heads a few months ago, wanting to run it in a Mustang next summer. The motor's still sitting on a stand, it's never been fired up. Well, I came across your video here about head gasket orientation last month and decided to pull the heads off of my engine to see if I actually did put the head gaskets on right. Just as I feared though, I put one of my engine's head gaskets on BACKWARDS. So, I ordered 2 new head gaskets (assuming that the old-ish ones shouldn't be reused after being crushed once) and installed them on the engine the right way last weekend. Now, I've got full confidence that my 302 engine won't overheat and destroy itself when I fire it up because of a stupid backwards head gasket.
AGAIN, YOUR VIDEO HERE JUST SAVED MY FORD 302 ENGINE FROM CERTAIN DEATH!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
I know a guy/kid 18 who bought a edobrock intake for a 302 and it had rear water passages (WHY DONT KNOW) but they where block off…. he drill out the flang on intake so water could flow there , he did not understand when i told him about the flow in motor lol was just kid built motor in high school for a 67 4 door galaxy paint flat black 🙂
My son has a 1999 Mercury Cougar with the 2.5 L V-6, it's recently blown a head gasket (or both), and suggestions/information on that particular engine would be helpful to me, also.
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You're awesome thanks man
thank you i am doing heads on my 302
hey my friend its the same way on the passenger side two right. front blocked and the back open
66 mustang 289 engine with 60k miles. Any tricks to doing a head gasket replacement on those?
Thanks, two of my local auto parts places couldn't help me with the correct orientation.
Thanks a million
Paul
I have a Ford 289 engine from a Mustang I bought in Feb 1966. It has 60K miles on it and has no problems. I want to drop it into my daughter's '66 Mustang. How to I find a shop that can correctly install new hardened valve seats in the heads. We are in Greenville SC and I don't know of a high quality performance machine shop that can do this. Where are you located? 🙂 Thanks for any help.
Yup this totally happened to me. My gaskets didn't have any markings on it and you think that the open ports must go towards the water pump. Right? ….. NOPE.
you Sir…. just helped me!!! thanks alot !!!
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!!! YOUR VIDEO HERE JUST SAVED MY FORD 302 ENGINE FROM CERTAIN DEATH!!!
I built myself a Ford 302 engine w/ aluminum heads a few months ago, wanting to run it in a Mustang next summer. The motor's still sitting on a stand, it's never been fired up. Well, I came across your video here about head gasket orientation last month and decided to pull the heads off of my engine to see if I actually did put the head gaskets on right. Just as I feared though, I put one of my engine's head gaskets on BACKWARDS. So, I ordered 2 new head gaskets (assuming that the old-ish ones shouldn't be reused after being crushed once) and installed them on the engine the right way last weekend. Now, I've got full confidence that my 302 engine won't overheat and destroy itself when I fire it up because of a stupid backwards head gasket.
AGAIN, YOUR VIDEO HERE JUST SAVED MY FORD 302 ENGINE FROM CERTAIN DEATH!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
What happened to the rest of the BuicK build?
I know a guy/kid 18 who bought a edobrock intake for a 302 and it had rear water passages (WHY DONT KNOW) but they where block off…. he drill out the flang on intake so water could flow there , he did not understand when i told him about the flow in motor lol was just kid built motor in high school for a 67 4 door galaxy paint flat black 🙂
GM 4.3 similar easy to put in backwards.
Looks like something Ford would do alright. If I had to guess that, it would be 50/50 that I would have gotten it backwards.
My son has a 1999 Mercury Cougar with the 2.5 L V-6, it's recently blown a head gasket (or both), and suggestions/information on that particular engine would be helpful to me, also.
what is the purpose of some intake manifolds that allow coolant flow at the rear of the intake and is it beneficial?