Just posting some pics of the head/reseal job I'm doing

 

dang that carbon build up is nuts

 

Any suggestions for cleaning that carbon off?

 

Not really sure what you would use besides some elbow grease, scraping and maybe some sort of wire brush pipe cleaner??? Had a buddy that used a really small wire brush wheel and welded it to a small thin flexible rod and connected it to his drill. It worked really good for what he was doing but he used it for other stuff but it was cool

 

At the point your at, I would just take the head off and get it checked out and cleaned. Maybe get a valve job done. Then put a new head gasket and timing chain kit on. I know double chains very rarely wear out, but the tensioners do. Then seal the front cover.

It's not that hard, if you can afford the down time...

 

Snobdds that's exactly what I'm doing lol cept the timing chain Its self its fairly new (one of the previous owners did it) haven't checked out the tensioner yet. And I plan to do the valve job myself next weekend

 

Finally had some time to get back to it. When I got it apart I found My pistons have a lil wiggle not much just enough you can see them move a little. So i reckon my question is how much would new pistons and rings and all the nessicary stuff to get it .20 over run?

 

exhuast valve #1 after a dip in carb dip, its been wire wheeled lapped and put back in now sorry no pics. Ran a .410 gun cleaning brush into the egr crap on the head and it was totally plugged bur the brush and a big screw driver took care if it, in total I've clean about two dixie cups of carbon off this head.

 

Some of the carbon on the valves before they where cleaned and lapped,
And the head all cleaned and reassembled

 

Did you mic the Cylinders out. Stock diameter is 92mm then go from there. I just had mine done at 40 over. I think that would be your first step. Then you could order rings and pistons accordingly.

 

Thanks for the info but nah I decided not to mess with the bottom end, till a later date when I have more cash, its in good enough shape to last a while longer.

Edit: forgot to tell y'all the results I went from 90-120psi compression and smokeing like a bandit to 150-155psi and running like a new truck.