My Blitz's

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Scott

Silly question but are you sure you got all the head bolts? Your pictures shows the rocker arm assembly in place and there is one head bolt dead center under it. You should have 15 head bolts out on the bench.

If they are all out then you are probably just dealing with some really good gasket cement. I would go with the air compressor route, the screw in fitting for compression gauge can generally be fitted to an air line. Try a couple of different cylinders hopefully you will fine one that will hold pressure. If you remove the rocker are assembly all the valves should be closed.

Depending on if you find cylinders that will hold air, you may want to put a couple of the head bolts back in loosely two control how hard the head comes off.

Once you get it apart, remember the witches brew of acetone and ATF, I've had really good luck getting engines unstuck after letting them soak for a couple of weeks.

Keep us posted on what you find.

Cheers Phil