Posted by Zachary Hoyt on May 16, 2012 at 18:34:39 from (184.8.248.104):
I don't have pictures this time because my hands were too dirty and now it is dark, but I decided to pull the head since I had three valves that I could not seem to get loose. That part of the job went fine, and now they are all moving and I will continue oiling them and tapping them back and forth till they move freely. Once the head was off I began to drive the #1 piston down with a block of wood and a sledgehammer. #3 was the stuck piston, all the other three had had good penetration from the ATF and were moving easily. #3 began to move, but the sleeve lifted about 2" out of the block, at which point it stuck and would not come further and the piston remained stuck in the sleeve. I took down the rod bearing cap and turned the crank so that it was out of the way and drove #3 back down and moved the piston about 1/4" down, then I got a piece of hickory 1X1 from the sticker pile and drove the piston and sleeve back up and out. Once it got out I realized that I had broken off the top ring of the sleeve from the rest of the sleeve, presumably when I was trying to break loose the piston. I got the remains of the sleeve off the piston and am now wondering if it is possible to buy just one sleeve for this engine. I have found piston and sleeve sets of four, but nowhere that I can buy just a sleeve alone. The piston is fine. Also I have seen some head gasket sets that claim to work for both H and 300 engines and I am wondering if that is true of all H head gasket sets or only some. I got the head gasket set for my H at NAPA a couple of years ago and was happy with it and would do that again if it would be suitable for the 300. Thank you all very much for your help. Zach
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