94StinkinLincoln

check the heads and block deck for straightness

shawnk007

+1 on possible warpage....

aode08

id have the machine shop check the heads out, its like $40 , then do a clean mill .010 off to rid of any warpage. I hae heard of this several occasions with those heads and see alot of them at the machine shop.

67mustang302

All good advice, but also if you had enough water in the cylinder to prevent the engine from turning over, you had hydrostatic lock, and hydrostatic lock = very bad. Before you put it back together, pull your oil pan and check to make sure the rods on the cylinder(s) that had water in them are straight. Liquid can't be compressed, so when you try to crank it and compress the water, the energy has to go somewhere, which is 1 reason why rods are designed to bend and absord the energy, otherwise you break piston pin bosses/ring lands, cranksetc. It wouldn't be a bad idea to actually pull the piston(s) and do a visual inspection to make sure they're not cracked as well, and that the rings and ring lands are still good. If it looks fine but runs rough after you put it back together, then something is damaged(possibly a bent rod that you can't see). Let's hope your starter was too weak to actually do that though

mjr46

If your boosted try getting the heads o-ringed for a loc-wire heads gasket

grabbem88

my afr 185's were .006 twisted on both...lucky me it blew on the exhaust side...i'm using the 1102's cuz the 1101's were the one's that blew....did u ever overheat...those heads are fragile to heat

5.0rick

Do not go with the Felpro lock wire gaskets. They are crap and you will have to remove extra material off the head if (when) they fail. I runthe Cometic gaskets (MLS - multi layer steel -Viton coated)and they have not failed me yet. www.cometic.com

Rick

Torque07

Multi layer steel is the way to go as 5.0rick stated. Straight edge block and heads for warpage and by all means clean with brake clean.

1991LX5.0

I just got back inside, the heads are already on, if i would have read this before i would have gone with the cometic. I took a straight edge across the heads and they were dead straight i couldnt even get a feeler guage underneath the straight edge. I cleaned the heads and the block off much more than i did last timeI did overheat once when I had an air pocket in the system and i think that might have done it. Hopefully theese hold up. Thanks for the help guys. And idont thinkthe starter had enough power to do any damage. When i went to start the car i could hear it engage but it didnt do anything just click, click

67mustang302

If you ever find yourself pulling the heads again, definately get the Cometic for boosted, or anything with high combustion pressures(wild build, nitrous etc)