[DeTomaso] Intake installation tips?

[Asa Jay Laughton]

Those would be non-standard heads.  In fact, you'll also notice there is
no 2 or 4 in the corner of the head, meaning they didn't come from a
351C originally.  They may have come from an M or 400.  I know nothing
specific about head for those engines, but I didn't think they had
coolant ports into the intake either.

Here is a photo of the 4V quench heads on my last engine rebuild:
http://www.asajay.com/351rebuild/images/engine/topend.jpg

You'll note there are not holes in those locations.

The second posibility is that someone drilled them into the water
jackets at one point.  I'm sure someone like Dan Jones will be able to
figure this one out better than I.  All I know is the heads pictured in
the link below are probably -not- stock 351C heads.

Asa Jay

redvobra at aol.com wrote:
> I hear ya, so something wacky is going on! Take a look at this photo,
> I have marked the holes in red:
> 
> http://augerresources.com/ashtonsgarage/misc/waterjackets.jpg
> 
> They were full of coolant. I thought it was weird as hell that the
> gasket just covers them and that there are no corresponding holes
> that match up to the intake. Let me know what you think!
> 
> -Chris
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: asajay at asajay.com To:
> detomaso at realbig.com Sent: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 8:47 PM Subject: Re:
> [DeTomaso] Intake installation tips?
> 
> Um. No.
> 
> The 351C head has a water jacket in it yes, but it is ONLY accessible
> from the block side (combustion chamber side) of the head. The side
> facing the intake has zero, zilch, nada, none, as in it ain't got any
> holes at all for water on the intake side.
> 
> Therefore if it is leaking, it is coming from the head gasket, not an
> intake gasket (because there are no coolant holes facing the intake.
> 
> 
> Now, if that is what you meant Chris, my apologize, I didn't
> understand your post properly. :)
> 
> Asa Jay
> 
> redvobra at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> There are water jackets in the head though, which are capped off by
>>  the gasket and air intake. It's leaking from the head side of the
>>  gasket.
>>> -Chris
> 
> -- Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
> 
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> 
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& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

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