[Vwdiesel] I dinged my rebuilt head HELP!

[Patrick Dolan]

Not just a file, but preferrably a single-cut, big, flat file, usually called a "lathe file".  Don't let any aluminum build up (clean it with a file card) and it will stop cutting when it is dead level.

----- Original Message -----
From: mark shepherd <mark at shepher.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Friday, January 23, 2009 9:13 pm
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] I dinged my rebuilt head HELP!

> Maybe a bodywork hammer would be best, as you don't want to remove 
> flesh 
> ideally...
> Mark
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <LBaird119 at aol.com>
> To: <william at taygan.com>; <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 1:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] I dinged my rebuilt head HELP!
> 
> 
> >
> > In a message dated 1/23/2009 3:32:55 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> > william at taygan.com writes:
> >
> >> It's on the gasket-mating surface, but outside of the part on 
> the gasket
> >> where the metal is, probably in 1/8" or so, extending to the 
> edge. It's
> >> raised just enough that I can feel the bumps.
> >>
> >> Is this critical?  Should I sand it down?  What grit?  Do I 
> need to
> >> bring it back to the shop?  Ugh.
> >
> >  From your description it sounds like it's outside the combustion
> > chamber and doesn't protrude into the chamber area?  The biggest
> > concern would be if it went into a water port or crossed the
> > ring around the cylinder.
> >  If that's well then flat file it, don't sand.  You only want to 
> knock> off the high spots not anything else.  Sanding tends to 
> take the
> > whole area down but just the high spots more.  It'll make more
> > of a mess than leaving it likely.  You could sand but only with a
> > solid block thus a fie is quicker and more accurate.
> >   Loren
> >
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