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October 7, 2018 at 8:41 pm
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Man, I wouldn’t take off the head unless I was SURE it needed to come off….Head gaskets usually have a metal fire ring that you can’t really reproduce in the basement….
As for plug gap, my Challenger had a Bendix magneto. They usually can’t take a joke; so my two cents would be .025", like many old Mercs with Bendix mags used to call for. And in order to make them run without skipping occasionally, I have closed them down to .020 and even .015!
Long live American manufacturing!