[MYTANG]

I have a motor that was rebuilt about 20,000 miles ago. I have 2 cylinders with bad rings. With the short block being rebuilt, what if anything should I do with the heads? Wire brush them, or dissasemble and clean them, hot tank, plane them...leave them??? Thanks...

 

[66babyblue]

If you are going to go through the trouble of taking them off, then you might as well go all the way

 

[twotoots2]

Were the heads rebuilt 20,000 miles ago? If not, rebuild. If so, I wouldn't do anything drastic to them, maybe with the exception of putting new valve guide seals in. If they were replaced during the rebuild, I would probably clean the head up a little and call it good.

BTW, most of my car metal is now built from ice machine lids! :: Doors, ground effects, spoilers...not much John Deere left in it, LOL!

 

[MYTANG]

Lets nic name your car...Zambonie. Just seems right. ::

 

[Arto65FB]

If you have some time to spare you might slightly port them if you can do that yourself. Even a little touch will gain nicely with awful Ford heads. See
http://www.sa-motorsports.com/diyport.htm
http://www.fordmuscle.com/archives/2000/07/homeporting/index.shtml

I wouldn't invest too much expensive shop time to stock heads considering the price of aftermarket heads.