If you remove equal amounts of material from the sealing surface AND the
deck, would not the geometry remain the same?
Ken Lewis

On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 21:35:37 -0600 Herb Harmison <herbh@iastate.edu>
writes:
>I second the idea that there is no way to machine the heads. The 
>geometry
>requires that the original surface be maintained.
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>The reason for this is that the head is "supported" by the cylinders 
>not
>the gasket as in conventional engines.
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>Removing any metal from the sealing surface of the head would make the
>gasket seal much less reliable if not destroy it completely.
>
>As noted, filling the pits with JB Weld is a good solution. There are 
>some
>good directions for doing the job in the archives.
>
>Herb
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