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Disconnect your battery

Drain as much of your coolant as possible.

Remove your carb, kickdown to intake linkage, intake etc.

Remove the ground from the front of the head, the exhaust manifold, possibly from the pipe too if you need to.

Remove the valve cover, then the rockershaft assembly.

Take the pushrods out and make sure you mark or put them in an order so they go back to the right lifter AND the correct end down (I like to do that anyway).

Loosen your head bolts but try not to remove the, so you don't get them mixed up, some coolant will probably spill down into the cylinders. Take the head off, you may need to wack the sides gently with a rubber hammer, or there may be a tang you can't pry from a little with a big flatblade screw driver.

Soak up all the anitifreeze off the tops of your pistons. Cover the rest of the motor good and spray some WD-40 on the tops of those pistons and blow it with an air blower from your compressor, just to make sure most the fluid is out. Put a little oil around the edges to keep it from rusting while your working.

Clean the top of the block thouroughly, make sure no trash got into the cylinders, is so, remove it. Do the same to the face of the head.

Clean the top of the block with a good solvent like laquer thinner or etc.

Then do the oppoisite for reassembly. Torque to specs and in recommended sequance for heads, rockershaft, intake, etc.

After your done, do an oil change to make sure no coolant is left in your oil and fill it back up with coolant.

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you forgot the gasket

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Thake it to a good machinist and have him check it and make sure that it is perfectly flat.

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you want it good the 1st time. the intake bolts are numbered 10-6-2-4-7-11 front to rear on the pass side. 9-5-1-3-8-2 on the drivers side front to rear. torque bolts 1 thru 4 in 12 INCH lb increments to 72 INCH lbs then the remaining bolts (5-12) to 72 INCH lbs (in order). Check that ALL are at 72 INCH lbs by (re)torquing them in order, then torque ALL to 144 INCH lbs in sequence & recheck all of them in order for 144 INCH lbs.

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what yr and vehical is it?

magnum 360?

Dak...ram 1500...older car ans swaped in the manum?

still got the manum keg intake and serp belt?

little more to it than an older LA 360,basics are the same but there is a little tid bit of info thats need for the mag stuff

like intake bolts only torque to 144 inch pounds..things like that..

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I would be looking at why the head gasket failed

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Don't forget to get the cylinder head checked for cracks. we have seen more than a few cracked.

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Disconnect your battery

Drain as much of your coolant as possible.

Remove your carb, kickdown to intake linkage, intake etc.

Remove the ground from the front of the head, the exhaust manifold, possibly from the pipe too if you need to.

Remove the valve cover, then the rockershaft assembly.

Take the pushrods out and make sure you mark or put them in an order so they go back to the right lifter AND the correct end down (I like to do that anyway).

Loosen your head bolts but try not to remove them, so you don't get them mixed up, some coolant will probably spill down into the cylinders. Take the head off, you may need to wack the sides gently with a rubber hammer, or there may be a tang you can't pry from a little with a big flatblade screw driver.

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Any "easy" way to get these bolts out?
I was able to use my cordless impact on a few of them but the ones I need to to do by hand are STUCK ideas?

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