Cylinder head disassembly.

After my play around with the engine short block, i moved onto the the cylinder head after my partner was done with it.


here, i started by removing the valves (both inlet and exhaust) to prep for measuring. i did this by using the valve spring compressor tool.
i whipped out the valves and measured its margin thickness, valve seat, valve guides etc.
for this i used a micrometer.


after measuring the valves (time consuming *sigh*) i unbolted the camshaft caps and whipped out the camshafts.


i took a micrometer and measured the cam lobes to see if they all lined with even measurements, aswell as other measurments.

later i checked the surface of the cylinder head for any warpage. to find out if there was, i used a steel straight edge and feelergauges to see if there was any spaces for the feelers to get through, if so there was warpage, if not then there was no warpage but in my case, there was none.

 

one of the last things i checked on the head was the torques on the cam journals.
i got some of this thread stuff called plasti-gauge, i put plasti-gauge in cam journals then place the camshaft back onto the head, place the caps back and torque down to spec.
unbolt the caps, remove the camshaft and take the squashed plasti-gauge and measure according to the key measurments on the plasti-gauge packet.


so that was the overall stuff that i had to do with the cylinder head and boy, did that measuring take its time.