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Originally Posted by fanaudical

Are you sure that coolant in the cylinders didn't fall in there while removing the heads?

I'd be tempted to validate the heads are flat (maybe you have to have them planed or get some rebuilt heads), clean things up, and just put it back together with fresh gaskets. That would be the least expensive.

Originally Posted by peteremsley

Yeah, surely that much liquid would bend all kinds of stuff, right? valves, rod, ...

Yeah, I don't think it was running with that much fluid in it. That's fluid that found it's way there instead of on the ground.