Hey everyone, I have a 62 F100 with a 292 we recently overhauled.  We went fairly extreme with it.  Stoker kit with pretty high compression.  I have been having trouble with keeping one of my head gaskets sealed.  I finaly figured out whats going on.  Both heads are form a 57 312 y-block.  One is an early production and one is a late production.  So one has the extra bracing inside and the other doesn't.  What I am planning on doing is drilling thought the head and threading a bolt flush with head till it touches the other side acting like a pillar for support.  Has anyone ever done this and what are your opinions.

Does this have to be done at each combustion chamber, or is it certain ones.

54 Victoria 312;  48 Ford Conv 302, 56 Bird 312
Forever Ford
Midland Park, NJ

Just add posts or braces for cylinders 1, 3, 6, & 8.  This amounts to two combustion chambers in each head and these are the chambers that are on each side of the chamber that has the rocker arm oil passage going through it.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)