With the engine parts at Ollie's and the transmission at CMI, it was time to turn my attention to the head/cam tower assemblies. The first step was to remove and bag each rocker arm assembly and label the bag with the cylinder # and I(ntake) or E(xhaust). Once all 12 rocker arms were removed, the camshaft was easily pulled out of the cam tower - I pulled the camshaft out carefully so as to not bang the camshaft against the journals in the cam tower.
Next, I removed the nuts and washers that secure the cam tower to the heads. Then using a rubber mallet, I tapped on the head studs of one head at a time to release the head from the cam tower. I repeated this process for the remaining two heads.
With the heads separated from the cam tower, I used a Dremel tool with an engraving bit to engrave the cylinder number on each head and either 1 or 4 on the cam tower in a non machined area.
I repeated this process for the other head/cam tower assembly.
Next I carefully wrapped each head, rocker arm assemblies, and cam tower with bubble wrap. I put the three heads in one giant zip lock bag and the cam tower and rocker arm assemblies in another giant zip lock bag. Then I packed the heads, the cam tower and the rocker assemblies into a heavy duty cardboard box with plenty of packing material and used fiberglass reinforced packing tape to seal up the box. I packed a second box for the other set of heads, cam tower and rocker arm assemblies.
I took the boxes to my local FEDEX shipping center and had them shipped to Craig Garrett at G2 Performance in Grand Rapids, MI. Craig will do machining work on the heads, rocker arms and cam tower.
