Ok I'm back with an update. I tried your rocker tapping trick Jerry but no dice...she's still leaking out of the exhaust port on cylinder #1.
I've got everything apart and will be pulling the head tomorrow morning. I tried to pull it today but I just didn't have the strength to lift it out of the engine compartment by myself without possibly damaging something else on the way out.
It's going to the machine shop...i'll see what they recommend, it's a small shop and they know these inline 6's.
As far as gaskets go...i'm just going to buy a complete upper end kit from Fel-Pro.
Question is...should I go with the fancy copper faced head gasket or stick with the fiber based gasket?
Last edited by jaydee5150; 02/27/2018 1:15 AM.
