ctown2
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To follow up with this thread. Had the heads redone at the local machine shop for $300 a piece. On the recommendations from others I made sure to order Ford OEM gaskets for reassembly. Today I finally got the last bolt on, and fired the truck up. Turned over just fine, and I ran it for a few minutes. After I pulled the truck out of the garage to have it idle, I noticed a coolant leak. Shut it off, and tracked the coolant leak to the (oil?/transmission?) metal lines on the passenger side. One of them is leaking fluid at a pretty steady rate. Now I have to figure out how to replace the lines... But the truck was running for a few minutes and it sounded fine! 
