Cylinder Head Off!

My how time fly's. Heat and the hand impact wrench persuaded the stubborn number one head bolt to release.

As you can see water gained access to the left cylinder with the result being rust and mold. Had a friend who does a restorations take a look at the head and his thoughts that it will clean up just fine, but he'd like to take a look at the valve seats.

Note the spark plug tip in the picture below, it was frozen in.

The left cylinder and piston do not look promising, but I expected to replace the cylinder body and pistons.

Valve caps and rocker covers are off in preparation for removing the valve gear. These areas appear to be clean and properly oily.

Note that the lower threads of the spark plug pictured below are filled with aluminum. Something else to be addressed.

Now to locate a valve spring compressing tool that will fit into this head.

Jim