i have a question too... do you plan on doing all the work to put the head on yourself?

 

yes i do

 

Please get a haynes manual for your car. Also their is no way you cracked your head. Alot of old timers/old school motor heads will say that becuase older cars had iron heads. Personally I cant think of a car built in the past 10 years that had a iron head. Everything is aluminum now... which is much more forgiving. To crack a head it would need to over head like crazy where if a alunimum head did so it would warp and cause a head gasket leek. Which is your problem. Also when you take the head off send yours out to get decked becuase if you hg blew I dont think your hg is perfectly flat. If you dont get it decked you wont fix the problem. Lastly Check your head for wear, take off the cam retainer caps and look for excessive scraps or sings of wear. torque everyhting down to oem specs... which will be in your haynes manual... that your going to buy before you pop the hood.

 

I have a 92 Montero with 3 ltr in it. We took off the heads to replace the gaskets and found a small crack on both heads between the valves. Both of them are on the middle pistons. My gaskets were bad and I was using anti freeze was the reason for taking the heads off.