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[Raeturbo]

Think I would have burned the fkg thing by now.

[Doctor Gollum]

 

[Kevin Wood]

It's a moot point.

.. as long as the 2nd hand head turns up perfectly flat. 

[Nick W]

I've lost count of the number of engine manuals I've read that say the head can't be skimmed. It's just @rse covering, surely?

I the face of F-all to lose I know what I'd do.

I agree with all of that.


Although I wonder how much arse covering is needed. A jobbing machine shop wouldn't even ask what it's off, just consider it as a chunk of metal to be made flat by removing as little material as necessary. The customer is responsible for the use it is put to, and whether that job is viable or not.


It's not that long ago that Rover insisted that their VVC mechanisms were impossible to reassemble, and any job that required it meant a new head. Back in the real world, a VVC stripped right down to the sliding blocks in the variators takes about 20minutes to build back into a working head. That's doing it with a £10 spring compressor on a Workmate in the garden...

[Doctor Gollum]

It's a moot point.

.. as long as the 2nd hand head turns up perfectly flat. 

Fine out on Wednesday.