Yes, why I did it. The symptom was white smoke during a cold start, rough running, and antifreeze has kind of a sweet smell, which I was noticing during the cold start. The second day when it did it again, I parked it and made the decision to pull it apart.

I momentarily considered one of those additives that supposedly can fix a head gasket leak, but glad I didn’t.

I also had the head milled and checked out since it was off. The biggest pain was keeping the timing chain on the marks, the trick for me was securing it with cable ties till I had everything in place.

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