My head is Cracked &%^$# Where to get another one?

[dd113]

Have at it.

 

[65swb45]

Here's another thought, as if you're not mixed up enough yet. 1975-1980 heads are MUCH easier [read: cheaper] to come by than 81 up heads,are a direct bolt on and are less prone to cracking. Trick is, they are lower compression than the 60 head, so they have to be milled in order to keep good compression. When I did a thread search on this, the concensus seemed to be about 90 thousanths.

When I blew my head gasket back in Jan, I saw some water deposits around one of the valve guides and decided not to take a chance. I picked up a supposedly rebuilt 75-80 head from cruiserbrett for $25, had it tanked and mag-ed for $40, milled for $50 more, checked the valves and seats out myself and put 'er on. I've only got a few hundred miles on her so far [lots of other things going on in my life] but so far I am impressed. No apparant loss of power after the milling, but just enough drop in compression that all the predetonation is GONE. Now I can run regular pump gas even in the middle of summer, which I couldn't before.

 

[vtcruiser60]

Here's another thought, as if you're not mixed up enough yet. 1975-1980 heads are MUCH easier [read: cheaper] to come by than 81 up heads,are a direct bolt on and are less prone to cracking. Trick is, they are lower compression than the 60 head, so they have to be milled in order to keep good compression. When I did a thread search on this, the concensus seemed to be about 90 thousanths.

When I blew my head gasket back in Jan, I saw some water deposits around one of the valve guides and decided not to take a chance. I picked up a supposedly rebuilt 75-80 head from cruiserbrett for $25, had it tanked and mag-ed for $40, milled for $50 more, checked the valves and seats out myself and put 'er on. I've only got a few hundred miles on her so far [lots of other things going on in my life] but so far I am impressed. No apparant loss of power after the milling, but just enough drop in compression that all the predetonation is GONE. Now I can run regular pump gas even in the middle of summer, which I couldn't before.

That is a good tip too! I didn't know that 90 thousanths did the trick. That is a good post......better than my yammering.

 

[wesintl]

That's what I ended up doing milling a ~76-77ish head and put it on the latter 2F

 

[fjman]

Never dealt with these folks but they offer a reman. head for 320$ + shipping might me worth a look. LINK

Good luck

well I think I might call these guys tommorrow. It seems like a good price and I need to do it very soon! Its been parked since July 5th and it's my DD. My back up car just crapped out on me too. So I have no wheels but the gfriends 4runner to tool around in (and she's losing patience too). I ended up bidding on the head on Ebay and sure enough (although I was the only bidder) lost in the last 6 seconds to cruiserparts (and I like them so much). Boy did that piss me off! So if these guys have one in stock, I'm gettin' it. Thanks for the good find.

 

[Cruiserdrew]

I checked that link, and they list the head from 75-87 as the same one. That is clearly wrong. I would be very careful with that one.

Milling an early 2F sounds good if you are confident that you can get a local shop to know what they are doing and not fawk it up. I think I would go through a real Cruiser shop like Mudrak, Urban, Mark's, MAF etc and get something exactly right so that you will have some recourse if it's wrong. You have to face the fact that you are going to drop some coin here-unfortunate but true. This is a part CRITICAL to the future performance and use of your Land Cruiser. Focus on doing the job right, not doing the job cheap. You will be much happier in the long run.

Now I'm stoked that Mark posted on this thread as I have a good spare '75 head, that could go on my FJ60 as the need arrises! 90 thousandths!

 

[fjman]

Do the heads just differ in the compression that they will produce and the circulation of oil? Get my facts straight before I call tommorrow. It's not that I'm trying to be cheap but I don't have alot of cash to throw at this rght now. I'll call the place up tommorrow and see what they say. Otherwise I'm gonna have to bite the bullit and take tthe best I can get,.