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Re: [GMCnet] So, about removing the Onan heads and looking for carbon... [message #192710] Mon, 10 December 2012 07:52 Go to previous message
Steven Ferguson is currently offline  Steven Ferguson   United States
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Just pull them, glass bead blast them, or have it done. It should be
relatively inexpensive as it takes less than 15 minutes. You can reuse the
old head gaskets if you haven't torn them during removal. Just spray about
5 coats of silver paint on both sides of them and they'll seal just fine.
Clean the head bolts and reassemble. I can't remember the torque specs but
I'm sure someone here will chime in.

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Robin Hood <loxley@gmail.com> wrote:

> What am I looking for, exactly, and what do I do with it when I find it?
>
> I need to remove the Onan cover from over the heads and clean the cooling
> fins.
> I need to take off the cylinder heads and "look for carbon" but I've
> never done this before so I don't really know what I'm looking for.
> Surely somebody has documented the process on the GMC photo site?
> If there's any carbon, I have to clean it away. Whether this requires
> chemicals or just a damp rag I don't know. Neither do i know what it's
> even necessary in the first place... but I do know I don't want to get
> back into my Onan once I've got it in the coach.
> Need a carb kit from JimK just to be on the safe side. My chemdip
> prolly ate the gaskets in the needle/seat (I didn't know that stuff
> was removable),
>
>
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> Jackson, MS
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