Machine shop called this morning, herbs telling me that someone has been in those heads before and they're in pretty rough shape. He can rebuild them, put new seats, guides and valves or..I can try and track down reconditioned heads...Or, buy a set of used if I can find them from someone I trust.

Thoughts? Anyone been through this before or have some suggestions?


1964 Ford F100 w/ 292 Y-block
-Central Florida-

I might have missed it, but I didn’t see what casting numbers your heads are. Lots of heads, different port sizes, chamber sizes, etc. some posted, most at this point milled to some degree.

If your not familiar with it, here’s a link to the head casting chart on John Mummert’s site.

http://www.ford-y-block.com/cylinderheadchart.htm

miker
55 bird, 32 cabrio F code
Kent, WA
Tucson, AZ

After doing much digging and searching, it looks like my best bet is just having our Machine Shop / Engine guy rebuild the heads that came off the motor.   At least that way, I know they're fresh AND they belong to that engine.   It'll do until I decide to hop it up and get some of those fancy aluminum ones.

That being said, anyone know where I can get some new head bolts?  Seems like there's a bit of shortage out there on those.
Thanks in advance, my friends!

1964 Ford F100 w/ 292 Y-block
-Central Florida-

I believe I purchased mine from head bolt.com. They were just over $100.
When I had my cylinder heads off for another reason I bought the tool set and installed positive seals. You can ask your machinist concerning them. Every engine I have built I’ve used them. This is the first time I did them myself along with cleaning  and lapping the valves. The engine had 10k miles. 

56 Vic, B'Ville 200 MPH Club Member, So Cal.

I got super excited when I found that site last night, and of course, they're out of stock. I called Mummerts yesterday and he's also out of stock. I see a trend here...

John did say that they can be purchased individually, you just have to know the exact sizing, threads, etc. which I do not trust myself with. LoL
Don't suppose anyone in here already has that info?

1964 Ford F100 w/ 292 Y-block
-Central Florida-

You might try custom ordering from ARP if having difficulty in getting grade eight head bolts elsewhere.  Here’s the link to a prior thread giving the individual ARP numbers for the Y head bolts.
http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/FindPost162034.aspx  

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

go to the closest cat dealer. they have grad 8 bolts that will work. you may have to trim the longer 1s. run a bottom tap down all the threads in the block. use the old bolts for length. I have used ther bolts on several engines. the original bolts ford used some ok ,most garbage when you assemble small dab of grease on each bolt  thread

Called ARP yesterday and got all these bolts ordered.  They told me that they're all on back-order until late Feb / March.   The lady wasn't super friendly, but I guess if I had to spend my day telling people that the parts they want are on backorder, I would be grouchy too.

Guess that gives me time to do all the other necessary bits to the block before the heads go back on.
I still need to get that broken bolt out...

1964 Ford F100 w/ 292 Y-block
-Central Florida-

Heads are done!

1964 Ford F100 w/ 292 Y-block
-Central Florida-

Low compression 471 heads. Is your engine supercharged?



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