Here's a question for some of you gurus out there.
In this video he's talking about the head and block and mentions that on almost all of the 216s the heads are made of cast iron and have a tendency to crack. He uses some type of epoxy to seal the cracks.
My question is if this is true for all of the Stovebolts? I know that my head is the higher compression 848 head and I was curious if those also have a tendency to crack?
The other thing is that most people say these inline 6s are pretty bullet proof, so even if they do crack it must not be a huge issue or it would be something that people take care of.
See 1:05 in this video where he talks about the cylinders cracking. He also mentions that none of the cracks were all the way through to the water jacket, so it wasn't a current issue for him, but he's repairing it anyway.
