<VV> Re:Leakdown testing / tearing down

[Bill Hubbell]

Boy, what a timely thread!  I just got back the 140 cylinder heads I sent
off to Larry Claypool's shop for repair.  They did a superb job!  New deep
valve seats, guides, exhaust valves, seals, etc.  They even repaired a
broken fin so well that you can hardly tell where it was.  Now as soon as I
get a warm day off work we will pull both heads on Geoff's car and replace
the heads with these babies!  I expect to find a partially dropped seat on
#2 - no compression.  Yes, I did check the rocker arm, valves, and pushrod
first.  No, I did not do a leakdown test -- what's the point?  Still need to
pull the head even if it does turn out to be a head gasket, piston or ring
problem.

Anyway, please take a look at the work Larry did for me.  Pictures at the
following site:
http://community.webshots.com/album/132008501hEnqyi

p.s. If you wonder where the broken fin was, look closely at the upper left
corner of the top head in picture #1 -- viewed in high magnification you can
barely make out that the grain of the metal runs diagonally - that is the
area of the broken fin.  You would never know it if I hadn't told you.

Bill Hubbell
TCC President 2003-2004
CORSA Eastern Division Director Candidate 2004

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