Partway there- - - - - -a couple of old geezers can still turn wrenches, even if we can't beat the flat rate manual time any more! Archie and I got the cylinder head off today, and it's definitely got a blown gasket- - - - -about half an inch missing between cylinders 2 and 3. The head followed me home, where it will get magnafluxed, checked for warp, the valve guides fitted with bronze liners, and possibly get some new valves. That should make it good to go for another 50+ years, when it will most likely be somebody else's problem!
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!