The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

[LaneRover]

The good: I finally started work on my Rover to see why I only had 30lbs of pressure on cylinders 3+4.

The Bad: The head gasket that is missing a piece between cylinders 3+4

The Ugly: The nice crack on the cylinder head between cylinders 3+4

Seeing as I have some gift certificates left over from Christmas, do I go ahead and get a new cylinder head? Do I pull the head off of the spare ex-mil engine of unknown quality that is in my side yard? Decisions decisions.

Also, personally I would prefer not to get into the rest of the engine right now. Since I haven't used the truck in awhile one of the cylinder walls has some surface rust.( I think I left a sparkplug out for a bit a little while back) My feeling is to attend to the head, get it running, use it and worry about the pistons only if I have to.

Any thoughts?

Brent

[swray]

Almost Identical

So, my copper head gasket blew between 2 and 3 and I have the same crack between the cylinders. What did you end up doing? I understand that a machine shop can weld this crack and grind it back down...