Blown head gasket repair?

[Big Red]

I am currently replacing a head gasket on a ‘89 240SX, I am getting the head resurfaced and I am almost ready to put the engine back together but I noticed brown crap all over the place inside the engine (coolent / oil mix), how do I flush out this stuff??

[brage]

wet dry vacuum might do the trick

[TrueSlide]

take a towel and shove it in the cyclinder area, it will soak it up, then it a rag and fine dry it.

[bruinbear714]

If you gone this far, why not just pull out the pistons, rods, and bearings and replace the rings/bearings also?

With all those out, you can clean the cylinder walls EASILY. You don't wanna have to pull off the head again later on because one of the rings went bad. My opinion is if your going to do it, do it right the first time. When I replaced the head gasket on my friend's 89 240, it took us a whole 3 hours extra to remove the pistons, replace the rings and bearings and get the pistons cleaned.

[Big Red]

It's my wifes car and she never drives it hard so I'm not looking to make it a mean racing machine, just to get it running again.

I had read that you can wash the internals out with kerosene, has anyone done this?

[dkim113]

all the nissan techs at my dealership just use a sureshot canister of brake cleaner or degreaser. its no big deal, just spray that solvent and clean it out with shop rags.

[Big Red]

You can use kerosene as a parts cleaner and degreaser. I'm not sure about just dumping it into the engine, though. That seems like a Bad Idea.

I think your right, Ill go with dkim113's brake cleaner idea instead.

Thanks guy's

[honda_eater]

hey big red, or anyone, how did you reach those 2 bolts on the bottom of the intake manifold to the head. Im tryin to yank that head and I cant disconnect it from the intake cuz of two stupid bolts on the bottom.

[Big Red]

They are not bolts, they are studs, you need to remove the Air intake collector (the one that says "ECCS" on top of it) to access the the nuts to those studs.

[brage]

Leave the intake connected to the head - TRUST ME

-jeff