Can i use A one piece Head?? If i have a motor that has a 2 piece??

[sicknick12]

haha pretty much what the title says is what im asking....I was told no i couldnt as much as yes i could...its a 2.4 200...thanks

[kingsbiship]

Mercury replaced the two piece with one piece in late 80s on the same engine.
If Merc. can do it... so can you! Does anyone else agree?

[outboards4life]

I agree, no reason you can't do it.:cool:

[stokernick]

just keep closing one door at a time,Nick,you're getting there!

[Jay Smith]

You can as long as the head bolt pattern is the same your fine on the switch from 2 piece to 1 piece heads.

CAUTION ! Some of the earlier 2.4 2 piece heads had what I call the bad
( narrow ) head bolt pattern that the head bolt bosses were almost right next to the bores instead of being out on the block edges.

I don't think Mercury made a 1 piece head in the ( bad ) head bolt pattern I spoke about in the above text, but I am by no means a 2.4 expert...

good luck,
Jay

[drasticplastic]

Yep, no 1 piece heads avail. on the old /"bad" first style (cyl. head bolt bosses cast into the cyl. bores) 2.0 and 2.4 motors. But on the later/"good" free standing cyl. bore spread bolt patern you can put on the 1 piece heads as stated above.

[kingsbiship]

Those 'bad' heads had a diamond shaped water cover... can't miss that!

[WATERWINGS]

I am running one pc. heads on a two pc. block. 2.4-200

[horn5413]

I believe 83 and later 2.4 you can swap the heads. MIKE>>