Anyway... gotta get this thing ready for camping season and beyond so the winch/grille guard goes to the back burner.
Yanked the battery and inner fender.
Which gives me beautiful access to remove the PS header.
Then out comes the radiator and shroud
And fan.
Tomorrow I am hoping to get the other inner fender out and start picking on the top of the engine. Carb, coil, dizzy, alternator, maybe intake depending on how things go. DS has the dipstick interwoven in a manifold never intended to have a dipstick in the block and PS has A/C which I forsee being my two biggest snags.
Yes, the great E6 head swap is happening for real. Really hopes it comes out a gain with oil burn and maybe a bump in low end power. With the touched up valves maybe a bump everywhere I dunno.
For those just tuning in it does go thru more oil than I like on our road trips but it only really ever smokes when I downshift, some hot starts and when it is left to idle for longer periods of time. Screams valve seals. But the valve seals were new in 2012 and only have a couple thousand miles on them, they shouldn't be wore out... unless the guides are wore out. I don't remember if/how I checked them before I put the heads on. So I went thru the E6 heads that are original to this engine, touched up the valves and seats, trick flow head set (new springs and valve seals) and checked the guides for wear. Everything came out good.